28th Avenue & 44th Street

The four-way crossing of 28th Avenue and 44th Street is in Astoria (East)-Woodside (North), Queens, and is also named Elizabeth White Marcum Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. St Joseph Catholic Academy is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 30 Av/44 St, is 680 feet away for the Q18, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
30 Av/44 St · Q18
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 playground and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
28th Avenue & 44th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 30 Av/44 St, 680 feet away, for the Q18.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 30 Av/44 St Q18
    680 feet
    Q18

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 44th Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 28 Ave & 44 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, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 40-08 30th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 30-10 35th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 34-54 44th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

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
76 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Elizabeth White Marcum 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 2,200 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 1934.

Since 2014 at least 11 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the shingle oak.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and November 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 28th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 28th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of 44th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 44th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. St Joseph Catholic Academy School
    620 feet
  2. Creche Les Etoiles Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    740 feet
  3. Les Petites Etoiles Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    740 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Astoria Heights Playground
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Joseph RC Church Astoria House of worship
    550 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Grand Post Office
    820 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    930 feet
  3. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 16 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 28th Avenue or 44th 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.