37th Street & 20th Road

The four-way crossing of 37th Street and 20th Road is in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Woodtree Playground is 600 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Steinway St/21 Av, is 820 feet away for the Q101, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and nine places to eat.

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37th Street & 20th Road Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Steinway St/21 Av, 820 feet away, for the Q101.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Steinway St/21 Av Q101
    820 feet
    Q101

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 20 Ave & 38 St 29 docks in all
    820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway southbound at 46th Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 31-02 20th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 30-10 35th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. LaGuardia Airport Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11105
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway
Elevation
47 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of 20th Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 20th Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 37th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 37th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 141 the Steinway School
    290 feet
  2. Teeny Tiny Toes Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,080 feet
  3. Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of Long Island City Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Steinway Playground
    180 feet
  2. Woodtree Playground
    600 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lidl Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  2. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,080 feet

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 nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.