29th Street & 21st Avenue

The four-way crossing of 29th Street and 21st Avenue is in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, Queens, and is also named Lieutenant Theodore Leoutsakos Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Queens Lutheran School is 700 feet away. The nearest subway, Astoria-Ditmars Blvd, is about seven minutes on foot, for the N and W. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them schools, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Astoria-Ditmars Blvd
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · N, W
Nearest bus stop
1,150 feet
Ditmars Blvd/31 St · Q69
Within a walk
7 places
3 schools, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
29th Street & 21st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Astoria-Ditmars Blvd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Astoria-Ditmars Blvd N, W
    0.3 miles
    N W

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. N …
  2. W …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Urban Idyll” (2019) by Elisabeth Condon at the Astoria-Ditmars Blvd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ditmars Blvd/31 St, 1,150 feet away, for the Q69.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ditmars Blvd/31 St Q69 · Countdown sign
    1,150 feet
    Q69
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 31 St & 21 Ave 27 docks in all
    400 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway southbound at 46th Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 31-02 20th Avenue Gas station
    1,230 feet
  2. 23-11 30th Road Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.4 miles
  3. 32-16 36th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 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 December 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11105
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway
Elevation
52 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Lieutenant Theodore Leoutsakos Way, a co-naming enacted on August 3, 2016 (Local Law 92 of 2016).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Lieutenant Theodore Leoutsakos Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 21st Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 21st Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of 29th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 29th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 417324.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of Long Island City Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    620 feet
  2. Queens Lutheran School
    700 feet
  3. Immaculate Conception Catholic Acad School
    780 feet
Show all 4
  1. St John's Prep School
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Steinway Library
    950 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    710 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,290 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 21st Avenue or 29th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.