21st Avenue & 31st Street

The four-way crossing of 21st Avenue and 31st Street is in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 167 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Steinway Library is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Astoria-Ditmars Blvd, is about six minutes on foot, for the N and W. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Astoria-Ditmars Blvd
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · N, W
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
20 Av/31 St · Q100
Within a walk
7 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
21st Avenue & 31st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Astoria-Ditmars Blvd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Astoria-Ditmars Blvd N, W
    0.3 miles
    N W

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. N …
  2. W …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Urban Idyll” (2019) by Elisabeth Condon at the Astoria-Ditmars Blvd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 20 Av/31 St, 950 feet away, for the Q100.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 31 St & 21 Ave 27 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway southbound at 46th Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 31-02 20th Avenue Gas station
    850 feet
  2. 30-10 35th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 32-16 36th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 167 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,667th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 166 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
49 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1923 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 63 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

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

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on 31st Street (west side).

North side of 21st Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 21st Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of 31st Street

  • Metered parking 7 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Back-in parking only 6 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 417324, 422224 and 426723.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of Long Island City Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    250 feet
  2. Queens Lutheran School
    320 feet
  3. Immaculate Conception Catholic Acad School
    840 feet
Show all 4
  1. Happy Bees Daycare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Steinway Library
    570 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,050 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,160 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    330 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    920 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    1,110 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 21st Avenue or 31st Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, 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.