39th Avenue & 22nd Street

The four-way crossing of 39th Avenue and 22nd 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 bas-relief sculpture “Diagonal Sonata” is 660 feet away. The nearest subway, 21 St-Queensbridge, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
21 St-Queensbridge
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
750 feet
21 St/38 Av · B62, Q66, Q69
Within a walk
12 places
7 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
39th Avenue & 22nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 21 St-Queensbridge, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 21 St-Queensbridge M
    0.3 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, 750 feet away, for the B62, Q66 and Q69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …
  2. Q66 …
  3. Q69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 22nd Street.

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 22nd Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 37-45 21st Street Gas station
    1,280 feet
  2. 25-42 Crescent Street Charging for electric cars, ten 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 ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

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

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 200 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 between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

Seventeen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese flowering cherry and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and February 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 22nd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-10AM

West side of 22nd Street

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

North side of 39th Avenue

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

South side of 39th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 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

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 library
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 111 Jacob Blackwell School
    1,300 feet
  2. Voice Charter School-Annex School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sixteen Oaks Grove Park
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Long Island City Library
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Evangel Christian Church House of worship
    1,060 feet
  2. Bosnian Hercegovinian Islamic Center House of worship
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Long Island City Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and six 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 22nd Street or 39th 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, NYCHA, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.