23rd Avenue & 28th Street

The four-way crossing of 23rd Avenue and 28th Street is in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, Queens, and is also named Bartunek Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Woolsey Post Station is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Astoria-Ditmars Blvd, is about three minutes on foot, for the N and W. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings, and 51 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Astoria-Ditmars Blvd
890 feet · 3 min on foot · N, W
Nearest bus stop
1,210 feet
Ditmars Blvd/27 St · Q69
Within a walk
5 places
3 religious buildings, 1 listed historic place and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
23rd Avenue & 28th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Astoria-Ditmars Blvd, 890 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. N …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. Astoria Blvd N, W
    0.4 miles
    N 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 Ditmars Blvd/27 St, 1,210 feet away, for the Q69.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ditmars Blvd/27 St Q69
    1,210 feet
    Q69

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on 23rd Avenue.

  • 47 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 23 Ave & 27 St 21 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway southbound at 46th Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 31-02 Astoria Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 23-11 30th Road Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 32-16 36th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017

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
46 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Bartunek Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 23rd Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of 23rd Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of 28th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 28th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 413650 and 421477.

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 post office

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bohemian Hall and Park Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Saint Markella Cathedral House of worship
    700 feet
  2. St Catherine & St George Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Woolsey Post Station Post office
    570 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    620 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    890 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 places to eat and 15 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 23rd Avenue or 28th Street.

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