32nd Avenue & 56th Street

The four-way crossing of 32nd Avenue and 56th Street is in Astoria (East)-Woodside (North), Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 320 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Academy of the City Charter School is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, Northern Blvd, is about five minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and four places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Northern Blvd
1,270 feet · 5 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
960 feet
51 St/32 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
32nd Avenue & 56th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Northern Blvd, 1,270 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Northern Blvd M, R
    1,270 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 51 St/32 Av, 960 feet away, for the Q18.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 51 St/32 Av Q18
    960 feet
    Q18

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 58 St & 32 Ave 19 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 32nd Avenue, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 56-02 Broadway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 57-02 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    1,150 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2023.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 320 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,436th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 180 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on 32nd Avenue320161
Westbound on 32nd Avenue–19
Total320180

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11377
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
25
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)
Elevation
45 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1941 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and October 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 32nd Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-3PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 32nd Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 56th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 56th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

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
    1,230 feet
  2. Academy of the City Charter School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Strippoli Square
    1,120 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Tibetan Community Center
    420 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 32nd Avenue or 56th Street.

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