Rockaway Boulevard & 116th Avenue

Rockaway Boulevard and 116th Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in South Ozone Park, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Hawtree Creek Middle School is 220 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Blvd/121 St, is 100 feet away for the Q7 and Q10, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them schools, and 14 places to eat.

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Rockaway Boulevard & 116th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Blvd/121 St, 100 feet away, for the Q7 and Q10.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Blvd/121 St Q7, Q10
    100 feet
    Q7 Q10

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q7 …
  2. Q10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at North Conduit Avenue & Belt Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 118-05 115th Avenue Gas station
    1,120 feet
  2. 110-00 Rockaway Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 44 Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 130th Place Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11420
Community board
Queens Community Board 10
City Council district
28
Police precinct
106
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Ozone Park
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 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 1920 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Catholic War Veterans Square.

  1. Catholic War Veterans Memorial Cross, 1938
    180 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 parks

Schools and child care

  1. Epic High School - South School
    220 feet
  2. Hawtree Creek Middle School
    220 feet
  3. J.H.S. 226 Virgil I. Grissom School
    220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Catholic War Veterans Square
    200 feet
  2. David J O'Connell Square
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Farm Boy Country Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    770 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.