31st Avenue & 55th Street

The three-way junction of 31st Avenue and 55th Street is in Astoria (East)-Woodside (North), Queens, and is also named Jack Hastings Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 151 Mary D. Carter is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, Northern Blvd, is about six minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and two places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
31st Avenue & 55th 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 six 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, 240 feet away, for the Q18.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 31st Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 31 Ave & 57 St 23 docks in all
    510 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. 31-02 68th Street 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 five 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 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
48 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jack Hastings Square, a co-naming enacted on April 11, 1992 (Local Law 26 of 1992).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of 31st Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 415012.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. MI Nuevo Mundo Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    410 feet
  2. P.S. 151 Mary D. Carter School
    750 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Strippoli Square
    300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Tibetan Community Center
    1,140 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 two places to eat and five 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 55th 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.