41st Avenue & 12th Street

The four-way crossing of 41st Avenue and 12th Street is in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens, at the edge of NYCHA's Queensbridge South development, and is also named Nina Adams Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Queensbridge Library is 160 feet away. The nearest subway, 21 St-Queensbridge, is about two minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
21 St-Queensbridge
500 feet · 2 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
490 feet
41 Av/21 St · Q103
Within a walk
13 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
41st Avenue & 12th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 21 St-Queensbridge, 500 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 21 St-Queensbridge M
    500 feet
    M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Queensboro Plaza 7, N, W
    0.5 miles
    7 N W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 41 Av/21 St, 490 feet away, for the Q103.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 41 Av/21 St Q103
    490 feet
    Q103

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 21 St & Queens Plaza N 35 docks in all
    950 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 21st Street & Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway, 1,150 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 4202 21st Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 8-08 Queens Plaza South Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 45-40 Court Square West Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 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
18 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Nina Adams Way (Local Law 45 of 2017, enacted on March 18, 2017) and Prodigy Way (Local Law 44 of 2023, enacted on March 19, 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 in 1939.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Queensbridge South development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 56 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 12th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of 41st Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Parallel parking only 3 signs PARALLEL PARKING ONLY

South side of 41st Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 community center
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Police Athletic League Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    420 feet
  2. Kids-Centric, Inc. Western Queens School
    460 feet
  3. P.S. 30 Academy of Cultural Excellence Pre-K
    680 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Queensbridge Park
    620 feet
  2. Vernon Playground
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Queensbridge Library
    160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 10-25 41st Avenue Older adult center
    430 feet
  2. Older adult center at Queensbridge North Older adult center
    430 feet
  3. Community center at Queensbridge North Community center
    500 feet
Show all 4
  1. Long Island City Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    930 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Street or 41st Avenue.

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