36th Avenue & 12th Street

The four-way crossing of 36th Avenue and 12th Street is in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens, at the edge of NYCHA's Ravenswood development, and is also named Hour Children Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Voice Charter School of New York is 300 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 36 Av/12 St, is 50 feet away for the Q102. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, five of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Queensboro Bridge
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
36 Av/12 St · Q102
Within a walk
15 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
36th Avenue & 12th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 36 Av/12 St, 50 feet away, for the Q102.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 36 Av/12 St Q102
    50 feet
    Q102

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q102 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 36th Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 36 Ave & 10 St 19 docks in all
    600 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 21st Street & Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 36-42 21st Street Gas station
    1,010 feet
  2. 32-16 36th Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11106
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22 and 26 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Hour Children Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 in 1960.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Ravenswood development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Hour Children Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2016 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Street

  • Back-in parking only 6 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 12th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

North side of 36th Avenue

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

South side of 36th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Voice Charter School of New York School
    300 feet
  2. P.S. 076 William Hallet School
    960 feet
  3. P.S. 111 Jacob Blackwell School
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. Voice Charter School-Annex School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Spirit Playground
    550 feet
  2. Sixteen Oaks Grove Park
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ravenswood Library
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pentecostal Christian Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Ravenswood Community Center
    860 feet
  2. Older adult center at 34-35 12th Street Older adult center
    1,090 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 260 Fire station
    510 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    1,220 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and seven 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 nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Street or 36th Avenue.

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