37th Avenue & 12th Street

The four-way crossing of 37th Avenue and 12th Street is in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The Engine 260 firehouse is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, 21 St-Queensbridge, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1941, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
21 St-Queensbridge
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
36 Av/12 St · Q102
Within a walk
15 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
37th Avenue & 12th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 21 St-Queensbridge, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 21 St-Queensbridge M
    0.5 miles
    M

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. M …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. M …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 36 Av/12 St, 560 feet away, for the Q102.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q102 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 13 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 21 St & 38 Ave 19 docks in all
    1,090 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 21st Street & Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 36-42 21st Street Gas station
    810 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 ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11101
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
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 12th Street

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

North side of 37th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of 37th Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Long Island City Library.

  1. Diagonal Sonata Bas-relief sculpture by Toshio Sasaki, 2007
    660 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Voice Charter School of New York School
    370 feet
  2. P.S. 111 Jacob Blackwell School
    540 feet
  3. Voice Charter School-Annex School
    540 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 076 William Hallet School
    730 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sixteen Oaks Grove Park
    550 feet
  2. Spirit Playground
    930 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Long Island City Library
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pentecostal Christian Church House of worship
    720 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 260 Fire station
    100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Street or 37th Avenue.

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