34th Avenue & Union Street

The four-way crossing of 34th Avenue and Union Street is in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Queens Academy High School is 630 feet away, and Flushing Greens is 1,200 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Union St/33 Av, is 290 feet away for the Q16 and Q20, and 14 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Whitestone Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Union St/33 Av · Q16, Q20
Within a walk
21 places
8 religious buildings, 4 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
34th Avenue & Union Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Union St/33 Av, 290 feet away, for the Q16 and Q20.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Union St/33 Av Q16, Q20
    290 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, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2020

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
25 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 1989.

Since 2014 at least 17 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 34th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of 34th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 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

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 449783.

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Collegiate Gothic and Queen Anne, one each, and built between 1887 and 1915.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 8 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
    630 feet
  2. Ace Beauty Academy Trade or language school
    940 feet
  3. Flushing High School Landmark · listed historic place
    980 feet
Show all 8
  1. Queens High School for Language Studies School
    980 feet
  2. Veritas Academy School
    980 feet
  3. Little Masters Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,010 feet
  4. Children's House Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet
  5. Health Force Solutions Trade or language school
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Colden Playground
    1,200 feet
  2. Flushing Greens Park
    1,200 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lewis H Latimer House Historic site
    800 feet
  2. Mitchell-Linden Library
    900 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Vianney RC Church House of worship
    300 feet
  2. St Paul Chong Ha Sang RC Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 34th Avenue or Union Street.

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