39th Avenue & 29th Street

The four-way crossing of 39th Avenue and 29th Street is in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens, and is also named Roger Laghezza Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Windmill Community Garden is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, 39 Av-Dutch Kills, is about two minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
39 Av-Dutch Kills
540 feet · 2 min on foot · N, W
Nearest bus stop
550 feet
31 St/39 Av · Q102
Within a walk
16 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
39th Avenue & 29th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 39 Av-Dutch Kills, 540 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 39 Av-Dutch Kills N, W
    540 feet
    N W

Next trains at this station

Astoria
2 lines
  1. N …
  2. W …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. N …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. 36 St M, R
    0.3 miles
    M R
  2. Queens Plaza E, F, R
    0.3 miles
    E F R

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Hellion Equilibrium” (2018) by Sarah Morris at the 39 Av-Dutch Kills station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 31 St/39 Av, 550 feet away, for the Q102.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 31 St/39 Av Q102
    550 feet
    Q102

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q102 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 29th Street and 39th Avenue.

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 38 Ave & 29 St 19 docks in all
    520 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 22nd Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 31-01 38th Avenue Gas station
    1,160 feet
  2. 32-16 36th Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported eight 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2018

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
43 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Roger Laghezza Place, a co-naming enacted on December 28, 2009 (Local Law 92 of 2009).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 54 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese tree lilac.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Roger Laghezza Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules
  • 7 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2023 and November 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 29th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM

West side of 29th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of 39th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 39th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 416069, 416070, 418443 and 419021.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Our World Neighborhood Charter MS School
    520 feet
  2. Growing Up Green Charter School
    640 feet
  3. Academy of American Studies School
    840 feet
Show all 6
  1. SCO Family of Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    890 feet
  2. Atlas School
    1,070 feet
  3. The Training Institute Qbi Trade or language school
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Windmill Community Garden
    260 feet
  2. Dutch Kills Playground
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Patricks Church House of worship
    490 feet
  2. Evangel Christian Church House of worship
    730 feet
  3. Bosnian Hercegovinian Islamic Center House of worship
    1,280 feet

Fire and police

  1. Ladder 116 Fire station
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. City Acres Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 29th Street or 39th Avenue.

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