32nd Avenue & 157th Street
The three-way junction of 32nd Avenue and 157th Street is in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens, and is also named Paul A. Vallone Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Bowne Park is 60 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 29 Av/159 St, is 1,190 feet away for the Q16. Within a five-minute walk are three public places. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1940, almost all in houses of one or two.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is 29 Av/159 St, 1,190 feet away, for the Q16.
- 1 route within a ten-minute walk
- 29 Av/159 St Q161,190 feetQ16
Next buses at this stop
- Q16 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Clearview Expressway northbound at Clearview Expressway & 26th Avenue, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.
- 152-06 Northern Boulevard Gas station0.6 miles
- 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers1.2 miles
- 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars1.7 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.
The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2016.
What the city has done here
- Enhanced crossing, April 2017
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11354
- Community board
- Queens Community Board 7
- City Council district
- 19
- Police precinct
- 109
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing
- Elevation
- 90 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Paul A. Vallone Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
Homes
About 200 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 1940.
Trees
NYC Parks records 176 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Paul A. Vallone Way.
Parks and places within a walk
How places are listedThree public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 1 park
- 1 playground
- 1 recreation center
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Bowne Park60 feet
- Bowne Playground520 feet
Community centers and public services
- Bowne Park Recreation Center400 feet
Not on record for this corner:
- A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
- A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
- A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
- A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
Nearby corners
The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:
- 32nd Avenue & 158th Street 260 feet
- 32nd Avenue & 156th Street 260 feet
- 157th Street & 33rd Avenue 510 feet
- 159th Street & 32nd Avenue 520 feet
- 32nd Avenue & 155th Street 520 feet
- 33rd Avenue & 156th Street 760 feet
- 33rd Avenue & 158th Street 760 feet
- 160th Street & 32nd Avenue 780 feet
See every intersection along 157th Street or 32nd Avenue.