25th Avenue & 43rd Street

The four-way crossing of 25th Avenue and 43rd Street is in Astoria (East)-Woodside (North), Queens, and is also named Pfc. Luke N. Gasparre Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Almadinah School QNS is 970 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Steinway St/25 Av, is 830 feet away for the Q101, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and 56 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
830 feet
Steinway St/25 Av · Q101
Within a walk
3 places
1 fire station, 1 religious building and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
25th Avenue & 43rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Steinway St/25 Av, 830 feet away, for the Q101.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Steinway St/25 Av Q101 · Shelter · Countdown sign
    830 feet
    Q101
    Shelter · Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 43rd Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 25 Ave & 41 St 23 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway southbound at 46th Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43-20 Astoria Boulevard South Gas station
    900 feet
  2. 30-10 35th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 34-54 44th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11103
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Pfc. Luke N. Gasparre Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1922 and 1934.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sawtooth oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Pfc. Luke N. Gasparre Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and January 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 25th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 25th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of 43rd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 43rd Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 fire station
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Almadinah School QNS School
    970 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 263/Ladder 117 Fire station
    680 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Berry Fresh Farm Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 56 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, 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 25th Avenue or 43rd Street.

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, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.