28th Street & Queens Plaza North

The four-way crossing of 28th Street and Queens Plaza North is in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bank of the Manhattan Company Building stands 640 feet away. The nearest subway, Queensboro Plaza, is about a minute on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 76 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
7 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Queensboro Plaza
360 feet · 1 min on foot · 7, N, W
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Queens Plaza South/28 St · T323
Within a walk
6 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
28th Street & Queens Plaza North Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Queensboro Plaza, 360 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queensboro Plaza 7, N, W
    360 feet
    7 N W

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
3 lines
  1. 7 …
  2. N …
  3. W …
Astoria
2 lines
  1. N …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. Queens Plaza E, F, R
    620 feet
    E F R
  2. Court Sq-23 St 7, E, F, G
    0.4 miles
    7 E F G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Columns” (2000) by Sydney Cash at the Queensboro Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Plaza South/28 St, 230 feet away, for the T323.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Plaza South/28 St T323
    230 feet
    T323

Next buses at this stop

  1. T323 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 28th Street and Queens Plaza North.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 28 St & 41 Ave 27 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 22nd Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4202 21st Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 25-42 Crescent Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 32-16 36th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11101
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
26
Police precinct
108 and 114 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 7,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2015 and 2019.

Since 2014 at least 159 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 97 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the European hornbeam.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2021 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 28th Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO NYC DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 28th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of Queens Plaza North

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 416027, 418494 and 418495.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Gothic, and built between 1925 and 1927.

  1. Bank of the Manhattan Company Building Designated landmark
    640 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Horizons at Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    270 feet
  2. PlayHouse NYC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    710 feet
  3. Atlas School
    820 feet
Show all 5
  1. District 30 Pre-K Center at 27-35 Jackson Avenue Pre-K center
    980 feet
  2. Academy of American Studies School
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Patricks Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    580 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    800 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Acres Market Supermarket
    630 feet
  2. Foodcellar & Co. Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    260 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 76 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 21 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 28th Street or Queens Plaza North.

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