33rd Avenue & Union Street

The three-way junction of 33rd Avenue and Union Street is in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Union Plaza Care Center is 120 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Union St/33 Av, is 40 feet away for the Q16 and Q20, and 14 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat. About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1960 and 1991, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Whitestone Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Union St/33 Av · Q16, Q20
Within a walk
24 places
11 religious buildings, 4 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
33rd Avenue & Union Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Union St/33 Av, 40 feet away, for the Q16 and Q20.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Union St/33 Av Q16, Q20
    40 feet
    Q16 Q20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q16 …
  2. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Union Street.

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 137-17 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 135-23 39th Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No 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 November 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11354
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
20
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flushing-Willets Point
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1960 and 1991.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 21 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2021 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 33rd Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of 33rd Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Union Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Union Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 historic site
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Queens Academy High School
    890 feet
  2. Health Force Solutions Trade or language school
    980 feet
  3. KA of Flushing Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet
Show all 8
  1. Ace Beauty Academy Trade or language school
    1,200 feet
  2. Flushing High School Listed historic place
    1,240 feet
  3. Queens High School for Language Studies School
    1,240 feet
  4. Veritas Academy School
    1,240 feet
  5. Little Masters Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Colden Playground
    940 feet

Health care

  1. Union Plaza Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Mitchell-Linden Library
    640 feet
  2. Lewis H Latimer House Historic site
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Vianney RC Church House of worship
    550 feet
  2. St Paul Chong Ha Sang RC Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Linden Hill Post Office
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 33rd Avenue or Union Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.