12th Street & 40th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 12th Street and 40th Avenue is in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens, at the edge of NYCHA's Queensbridge North development, and is also named Bishop Moses Taylor Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kids-Centric, Inc. Western Queens is 1,020 feet away. The nearest subway, 21 St-Queensbridge, is about four minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
21 St-Queensbridge
980 feet · 4 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
40 Av/12 St · Q103
Within a walk
14 places
5 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Street & 40th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 21 St-Queensbridge, 980 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. 21 St-Queensbridge M
    980 feet
    M

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. M …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. M …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 40 Av/12 St, 70 feet away, for the Q103.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 40 Av/12 St Q103
    70 feet
    Q103

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 40 Ave & 9 St 19 docks in all
    810 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 21st Street & Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 39-01 21st Street Gas station
    1,120 feet
  2. 8-08 Queens Plaza South Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 32-16 36th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11101
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
26
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Bishop Moses Taylor Way, a co-naming enacted on March 7, 2012 (Local Law 14 of 2012).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1939.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Queensbridge North development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Bishop Moses Taylor Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 45 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and August 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

West side of 12th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING HOTEL LOADING ZONE
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of 40th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 community center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 30 Academy of Cultural Excellence Pre-K
    110 feet
  2. Police Athletic League Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet
  3. Kids-Centric, Inc. Western Queens School
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Queensbridge Park
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Queensbridge Library
    640 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Long Island City Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    370 feet
  2. Older adult center at 10-25 41st Avenue Older adult center
    1,000 feet
  3. Older adult center at Queensbridge North Older adult center
    1,000 feet
Show all 4
  1. Community center at Queensbridge North Community center
    1,060 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 12th Street or 40th Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.