31st Avenue & Vernon Boulevard

The three-way junction of 31st Avenue and Vernon Boulevard is in Old Astoria-Hallets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Socrates Sculpture Park is 40 feet away, and Halletts Cove Beach is 150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Vernon Blvd/31 Av, is 80 feet away for the Q103, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them playgrounds, and four places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Queensboro Bridge
1.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Vernon Blvd/31 Av · Q103
Within a walk
8 places
2 playgrounds, 1 beach and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
31st Avenue & Vernon Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Vernon Blvd/31 Av, 80 feet away, for the Q103.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vernon Blvd/31 Av Q103
    80 feet
    Q103

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Vernon Blvd & 31 Ave 23 docks in all
    120 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 21st Street & Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 32-05 21st Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 26-19 2nd Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 32-16 36th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, June 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11106
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Old Astoria-Hallets Point
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • 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 2007 and 2021.

Since 2014 at least 215 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 31st Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 31st Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Vernon Boulevard

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as German Romanesque Revival, and built in 1886.

  1. Sohmer & Company Piano Factory Designated landmark
    180 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 beach
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 park
  • 1 public space
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ideal Islamic School
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Socrates Sculpture Park
    40 feet
  2. Halletts Cove Beach
    150 feet
  3. Hallets Cove Playground
    800 feet
Show all 4
  1. Astoria Health Playground
    980 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Costco Public space
    850 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    0.3 miles

Other places

  1. Astoria Ferry Landing
    1,070 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 31st Avenue or Vernon Boulevard.

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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.