31st Avenue & 48th Street

The four-way crossing of 31st Avenue and 48th Street is in Astoria (East)-Woodside (North), Queens, and is also named Bryant Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Astoria Heights Playground is 800 feet away. The nearest subway, 46 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
46 St
990 feet · 4 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
1,050 feet
Broadway/48 St · Q104
Within a walk
13 places
4 religious buildings, 3 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
31st Avenue & 48th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 46 St, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 46 St M, R
    990 feet
    M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Northern Blvd M, R
    0.5 miles
    M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/48 St, 1,050 feet away, for the Q104.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/48 St Q104
    1,050 feet
    Q104

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on 31st Avenue.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 49 St & 31 Ave 19 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 32nd Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43-02 31st Avenue Gas station
    1,210 feet
  2. 31-30 Steinway Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 45-02 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11103
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22 and 26 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Bryant Square, a co-naming enacted on November 4, 1988 (Local Law 70 of 1988).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Bryant Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

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

South side of 31st Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of 48th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-8PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. William Cullen Bryant High School
    380 feet
  2. I.S. 010 Horace Greeley School
    780 feet
  3. P.S. 151 Mary D. Carter School
    810 feet
Show all 4
  1. MI Nuevo Mundo Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Astoria Heights Playground
    800 feet
  2. Strippoli Square
    970 feet
  3. Corporal Frank F. Fagan Sq. Park
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Community Pride - Woodside Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,210 feet
  2. Woodside Houses Park
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Plaza 48 Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and 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 31st Avenue or 48th 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, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.