Springfield Boulevard & 47th Avenue

Springfield Boulevard and 47th Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Bayside, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Oakland Lake in Alley Pond Park is 30 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Northern Blvd/219 St, is 1,300 feet away for the Q12, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and two places to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1955, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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Springfield Boulevard & 47th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Northern Blvd/219 St, 1,300 feet away, for the Q12.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Northern Blvd/219 St Q12 · Shelter
    1,300 feet
    Q12
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Springfield Boulevard.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway at Northern Boulevard & Cross Island Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 218-01 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 47-14 217th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    790 feet
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11361
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
19 and 23 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bayside
Elevation
47 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the pin oak.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Oakland Lake in Alley Pond Park Park feature
    30 feet
  2. Alley Pond Park
    40 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat.

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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

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