31st Avenue & 82nd Street

The four-way crossing of 31st Avenue and 82nd Street is in Jackson Heights, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 134 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Engine 307/Ladder 154 firehouse is 1,310 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 82 St/32 Av, is 540 feet away for the Q33, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and one place to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Grand Central Parkway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
82 St/32 Av · Q33
Within a walk
3 places
1 fire station, 1 playground and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
31st Avenue & 82nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 82 St/32 Av, 540 feet away, for the Q33.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 82 St/32 Av Q33
    540 feet
    Q33

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q33 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 31st Avenue and 82nd Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 31 Ave & 84 St 21 docks in all
    510 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound at Astoria Boulevard North & Grand Central Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 76-19 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 82-20 Astoria Boulevard Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2016

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 134 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,710th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 55 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11370
Community board
Queens Community Board 3
City Council district
25
Police precinct
115
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jackson Heights
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Not Green Leaf' Norway maple and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2013 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 31st Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 31st Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of 82nd Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 82nd Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 fire station
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gorman Playground
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 307/Ladder 154 Fire station
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Jackson Heights Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 31st Avenue or 82nd Street.

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