Powells Cove Boulevard & 3rd Avenue

Powells Cove Boulevard and 3rd Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Whitestone-Beechhurst, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The nearest bus stop, 10 Av/Clintonville St, is 0.5 miles away for the Q15. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1999 and 2004, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

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Powells Cove Boulevard & 3rd Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 10 Av/Clintonville St, 0.5 miles away, for the Q15.

  • 1 route within a ten-minute walk
  1. 10 Av/Clintonville St Q15
    0.5 miles
    Q15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q15 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway southbound at Cross Island Parkway & 149th Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 10-02 Clintonville Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 12-30 Clintonville Street Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11357
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
19
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Whitestone-Beechhurst
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1999 and 2004.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and June 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 3rd Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 3rd Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD and NYC Parks, retrieved September 19 – October 6, 2026.