24th Avenue & Crescent Street

The four-way crossing of 24th Avenue and Crescent Street is in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, Queens, and is also named Giuseppa Vendome Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Triborough Bridge Playground E is 820 feet away. The nearest subway, Astoria Blvd, is about eight minutes on foot, for the N and W. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them parks, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Astoria Blvd
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · N, W
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
Hoyt Av/Crescent St · Q19
Within a walk
8 places
4 parks, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
24th Avenue & Crescent 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 eight 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 …

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, 780 feet away, for the Q19.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q19 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Crescent Street.

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 24 Ave & 26 St 19 docks in all
    230 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. 30-02 Astoria Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 23-11 30th Road Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 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 five crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2025
  • Turn calming, July 2026

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
29 feet above sea level

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 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 Crescent Street

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Crescent Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. High Five Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,060 feet
  2. Astoria Early Childhood Development Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Triborough Bridge Playground E Park
    820 feet
  2. Triborough Bridge Playground D Park
    820 feet
  3. Triborough Bridge Playground C Park
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. Chappetto Square Park
    1,070 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bohemian Hall and Park Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Saint Markella Cathedral House of worship
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 24th Avenue or Crescent 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.