139th Street & 31st Road

The three-way junction of 139th Street and 31st Road is in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Linden Hill Post Office is 760 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 31 Rd/138 St, is 260 feet away for the Q61, QM2 and QM20, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and four places to eat.

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139th Street & 31st Road Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 31 Rd/138 St, 260 feet away, for the Q61, QM2 and QM20.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 31 Rd/138 St Q61, QM2, QM20
    260 feet
    Q61 QM2 QM20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q61 …
  2. QM2 …
  3. QM20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 137-17 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 135-23 39th Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    1 mile

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11354
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
20
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,800 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 between 1953 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2024 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 139th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of 139th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of 31st Road

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 214 Cadwallader Colden School
    600 feet
  2. Ready, Set, Grow! Child Care Center, L.L.C Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  3. P.S. 242 Leonard P. Stavisky Early Childhood School Pre-K
    900 feet
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  1. Health Force Solutions Trade or language school
    1,170 feet
  2. Holy Mountain Nursery Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Colden Playground
    700 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Linden Hill Post Office
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four 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 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:

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