31st Avenue & 54th Street

The four-way crossing of 31st Avenue and 54th Street is in Astoria (East)-Woodside (North), Queens, and is also named Firefighter Jimmy Lanza Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. William Cullen Bryant High School is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Northern Blvd, is about five minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them schools, and three places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Northern Blvd
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
54 St/31 Av · Q18
Within a walk
6 places
2 schools, 1 community center and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
31st Avenue & 54th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Northern Blvd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Northern Blvd M, R
    0.3 miles
    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. 46 St M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 54 St/31 Av, 40 feet away, for the Q18.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 54 St/31 Av Q18
    40 feet
    Q18

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 31st Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 51 St & Hobart St 22 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 32nd Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 50-92 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 57-02 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11377
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22 and 25 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)
Elevation
44 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Firefighter Jimmy Lanza Way (Local Law 237 of 2017, enacted on December 1, 2017) and Strippoli Square (Local Law 20 of 1969, enacted on May 15, 1969).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 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 1935 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 31st Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 31st Avenue

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

East side of 54th Street

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Parallel parking only 1 sign PARALLEL PARKING ONLY

West side of 54th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 415012 and 419002.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. MI Nuevo Mundo Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    160 feet
  2. P.S. 151 Mary D. Carter School
    500 feet
  3. William Cullen Bryant High School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Strippoli Square
    50 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Woodside Community Center
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and six 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 of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 31st Avenue or 54th 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 and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.