Q14 and Q38 buses

The Q14 and Q38 are bus routes in Queens, New York City, that run from the western Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood to central Queens. From 1960 until 2025, they operated as a single "C"-shaped route, the Q38, running from the Corona and Elmhurst neighborhoods to the Forest Hills neighborhood, via the Metropolitan Avenue station in Middle Village. The Penelope Avenue section retains the Q38 designation, which terminates at Metropolitan Avenue/Fresh Pond Road, while the Eliot Avenue section is served by the Q14, providing connections to East Elmhurst and Ridgewood. Both routes run seven days a week but do not operate overnight. The routes are city-operated under the MTA New York City Transit brand of MTA Regional Bus Operations. As of 2025, the Q14 is operated out of the Fresh Pond Depot, while the Q38 is operated out of the Casey Stengel Depot as New York City Transit routes.

The Q38 was founded as two separate routes. The Penelope Avenue route was originally started by the Affiliated Bus Transit Corporation on June 17, 1934, as the Q38, which ran from East Elmhurst to the Metropolitan Avenue station. The Eliot Avenue portion of the line was a separate Triboro Coach route, which began operating in 1940 as alternate branches of the Q45 (now the southern half of the Q47). The Eliot Avenue portion was later split into its own route, the Q45X (later the Q50). The East Elmhurst branch of the old Q38 was truncated to Forest Hills by 1948. On July 3, 1960, the Penelope and Eliot Avenue routes were combined into a single route, the Q38. On June 29, 2025, service on Eliot Avenue was split off into the Q14, with extensions to East Elmhurst and Ridgewood.