38th Avenue & 23rd Street

The four-way crossing of 38th Avenue and 23rd Street is in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The bas-relief sculpture “Diagonal Sonata” is 660 feet away. The nearest subway, 21 St-Queensbridge, is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
21 St-Queensbridge
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
21 St/38 Av · B62, Q66, Q69
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
38th Avenue & 23rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 21 St-Queensbridge, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 21 St-Queensbridge M
    0.4 miles
    M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 39 Av-Dutch Kills N, W
    0.4 miles
    N W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 21 St/38 Av, 590 feet away, for the B62, Q66 and Q69.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 21 St/38 Av B62, Q66, Q69
    590 feet
    B62 Q66 Q69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …
  2. Q66 …
  3. Q69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 23rd Street.

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 24 St & 38 Ave 19 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 22nd Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 37-45 21st Street Gas station
    540 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 seven crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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
14 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and August 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 23rd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 23rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of 38th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 38th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

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

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. SCO Family of Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  2. P.S. 111 Jacob Blackwell School
    1,120 feet
  3. Voice Charter School-Annex School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sixteen Oaks Grove Park
    910 feet
  2. Dutch Kills Playground
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Long Island City Library
    730 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bosnian Hercegovinian Islamic Center House of worship
    470 feet
  2. Evangel Christian Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    1,120 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and eight 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 23rd Street or 38th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.