28th Street & Queens Plaza

The four-way crossing of 28th Street and Queens Plaza is in Long Island City-Hunters Point, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Bank of the Manhattan Company Building stands 690 feet away. The nearest subway, Queensboro Plaza, is about two minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 75 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Queensboro Plaza
460 feet · 2 min on foot · 7, N, W
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Queens Plaza South/28 St · T323
Within a walk
5 places
3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 schools, within five minutes

Map

Layers
28th Street & Queens Plaza Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Queensboro Plaza, 460 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queensboro Plaza 7, N, W
    460 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
    530 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, 130 feet away, for the T323.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. T323 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 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
    450 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 22nd Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43-10 Van Dam Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 44-28 Purves Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.5 miles
  3. 32-16 36th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11101
Community board
Queens Community Board 2
City Council district
26
Police precinct
108
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Long Island City-Hunters Point
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 8,500 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 95 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the European hornbeam.

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
    690 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Horizons at Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    170 feet
  2. PlayHouse NYC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    690 feet
  3. District 30 Pre-K Center at 27-35 Jackson Avenue Pre-K center
    880 feet
Show all 5
  1. Atlas School
    920 feet
  2. Academy of American Studies School
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    680 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    700 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    170 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 75 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 28th Street or Queens Plaza.

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