31st Avenue & Steinway Street

The four-way crossing of 31st Avenue and Steinway Street is in Astoria (East)-Woodside (North), Queens, and is also named Demetris Kastanas Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 37 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Urban Dove Team Charter School III is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, Steinway St, is about five minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them religious buildings, and 68 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along 31st Avenue.

Safety record
24 hurt
37 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Steinway St
1,310 feet · 5 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Steinway St/31 Av · Q101
Within a walk
9 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
31st Avenue & Steinway Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Steinway St, 1,310 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Steinway St M, R
    1,310 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. 46 St M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Steinway St/31 Av, 70 feet away, for the Q101.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Steinway St/31 Av Q101 · Shelter · Countdown sign
    70 feet
    Q101
    Shelter · Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 31st Avenue.

  • 45 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 31 Ave & Steinway St 27 docks in all
    70 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway southbound at 46th Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43-02 31st Avenue Gas station
    990 feet
  2. 31-30 Steinway Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    280 feet
  3. 34-54 44th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 37 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11103
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)
Elevation
65 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Demetris Kastanas Way, a co-naming enacted on February 25, 2016 (Local Law 23 of 2016).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1960.

Since 2014 at least 19 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Demetris Kastanas Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 78 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 15 active meters
  • 6 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Steinway Street (west side).

North side of 31st Avenue

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

South side of 31st Avenue

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

East side of Steinway Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 12 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 415528, 417370, 419940, 425650, 425704 and 426283.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated one street clock.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Diki Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    310 feet
  2. Urban Dove Team Charter School III School
    880 feet
  3. Empire Beauty School Trade or language school
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. Betty Owen Secretarial Systems Trade or language school
    1,120 feet
  2. P.S. 070 School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sean's Place Park
    350 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Broadway Library
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Lutheran Church of Astoria and Long Island City Listed historic place
    620 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    210 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    720 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Farm Country Supermarket
    360 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    70 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,210 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 68 places to eat and seven food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 31st Avenue or Steinway Street.

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