West End Drive & Van Nostrand Court

West End Drive and Van Nostrand Court meet at a four-way crossing in Douglaston-Little Neck, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Pembroke/Van Nostrand Court Garden is 160 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Pembroke Av/Glenwood St, is 600 feet away for the Q12, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 25 places to eat.

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West End Drive & Van Nostrand Court Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pembroke Av/Glenwood St, 600 feet away, for the Q12.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pembroke Av/Glenwood St Q12
    600 feet
    Q12

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & 254th Street at Long Island Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 260-01 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 249-31 61st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 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 February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11362
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
19
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Douglaston-Little Neck
Elevation
92 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Immanuel New York Mission Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    780 feet
  2. Leading Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  3. Immanuel Genius Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet
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  1. Kiddie Academy of Little Neck Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pembroke/Van Nostrand Court Garden
    160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Community Church of Little Neck House of worship
    270 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    770 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Jmart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and two 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 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.