24th Avenue & 26th Street

The four-way crossing of 24th Avenue and 26th Street is in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, Queens, and is also named Giuseppa Vendome Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Saint Markella Cathedral is 1,210 feet away. The nearest subway, Astoria Blvd, is about seven 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 11 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Astoria Blvd
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · N, W
Nearest bus stop
1,040 feet
Hoyt Av/Crescent St · Q19
Within a walk
7 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
24th Avenue & 26th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Astoria Blvd, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Astoria Blvd N, W
    0.4 miles
    N W

Next trains at this station

Astoria
2 lines
  1. N …
  2. W …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. N …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. Astoria-Ditmars Blvd N, W
    0.5 miles
    N W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “I AM A RAINBOW TOO” (2020) by Jeffrey Gibson at the Astoria Blvd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hoyt Av/Crescent St, 1,040 feet away, for the Q19.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hoyt Av/Crescent St Q19
    1,040 feet
    Q19

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q19 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 24 Ave & 26 St 19 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11102
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Giuseppa Vendome Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1924 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and October 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 24th Avenue

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

South side of 24th Avenue

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

East side of 26th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 26th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks 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 parks
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. New Milestone Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet
  2. Bright Start Child Learning Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Triborough Bridge Playground E Park
    820 feet
  2. Triborough Bridge Playground D Park
    1,080 feet
  3. Hoyt Playground
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bohemian Hall and Park Listed historic place
    940 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Saint Markella Cathedral House of worship
    1,210 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and six 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 24th Avenue or 26th Street.

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, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.