39th Avenue & 21st Street

The three-way junction of 39th Avenue and 21st Street is in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2026, 229 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here through August 27. Sixteen Oaks Grove is 760 feet away, and Voice Charter School-Annex is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, 21 St-Queensbridge, is about four 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 14 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
21 St-Queensbridge
1,010 feet · 4 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
430 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
39th Avenue & 21st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 21 St-Queensbridge, 1,010 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 21 St-Queensbridge M
    1,010 feet
    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
    0.5 miles
    N W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 21 St/38 Av, 430 feet away, for the B62, Q66 and Q69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …
  2. Q66 …
  3. Q69 …

Live arrivals

A bus lane runs along 21st Street, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet, all of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 21st Street & Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 39-01 21st Street Gas station
    at this corner
  2. 8-08 Queens Plaza South Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 32-16 36th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 229 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

Within 820 feet of this corner are 35 homes, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 10am to 7pm on 21st Street (west side).

East side of 21st Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 39th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 39th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 426248.

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
    530 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 career or business center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 111 Jacob Blackwell School
    970 feet
  2. Voice Charter School-Annex School
    970 feet
  3. P.S. 30 Academy of Cultural Excellence Pre-K
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sixteen Oaks Grove Park
    760 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Long Island City Library
    580 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Long Island City Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and seven 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 21st Street or 39th Avenue.

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