36th Avenue & 13th Street

The three-way junction of 36th Avenue and 13th Street is in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens, at the edge of NYCHA's Ravenswood development. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The Engine 260 firehouse is 750 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 36 Av/12 St, is 220 feet away for the Q102, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them schools, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Queensboro Bridge
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
36 Av/12 St · Q102
Within a walk
13 places
4 schools, 3 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
36th Avenue & 13th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 36 Av/12 St, 220 feet away, for the Q102.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q102 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 36th Avenue.

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 21 St & 36 Ave 19 docks in all
    710 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
    760 feet
  2. 32-16 36th Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, more 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 May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11106
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
26
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 900 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 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2024 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 13th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

South side of 36th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Voice Charter School of New York School
    540 feet
  2. P.S. 111 Jacob Blackwell School
    830 feet
  3. Voice Charter School-Annex School
    830 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 076 William Hallet School
    1,200 feet
  2. Msgr. Andrew Landi Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Spirit Playground
    800 feet
  2. Sixteen Oaks Grove Park
    840 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ravenswood Library
    620 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Ravenswood Community Center
    620 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 260 Fire station
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    970 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 13th Street or 36th Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, 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.