20th Avenue & 28th Street

The three-way junction of 20th Avenue and 28th Street is in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The nearest bus stop, 20 Av/31 St, is 580 feet away for the Q100, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one place to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along 20th Avenue. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1949, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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20th Avenue & 28th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 20 Av/31 St, 580 feet away, for the Q100.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 20 Av/31 St Q100
    580 feet
    Q100

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 20th Avenue.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 20 Ave & 31 St 21 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway southbound at 46th Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 31-02 20th Avenue Gas station
    810 feet
  2. 23-11 30th Road Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.5 miles
  3. LaGuardia Airport Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 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 March 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11105
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and December 2016, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of 20th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of 28th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 28th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Supermarkets

  1. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Lidl Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles
  2. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

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

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