43rd Avenue & 21st Street

The four-way crossing of 43rd Avenue and 21st Street is in Long Island City-Hunters Point, Queens, and is also named Mason Tenders’ Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Information Technology High School is 1,040 feet away. The nearest subway, Court Sq-23 St, is about four minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Court Sq-23 St
1,040 feet · 4 min on foot · 7, E, F, G
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
21 St/Queens Plaza South · B62, Q103
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
43rd Avenue & 21st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Court Sq-23 St, 1,040 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Court Sq-23 St 7, E, F, G
    1,040 feet
    7 E F G

Next trains at this station

Outbound
3 lines
  1. 7 …
  2. E …
  3. F …
Manhattan
3 lines
  1. 7 …
  2. E …
  3. F …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

  1. 21 St-Queensbridge M
    0.3 miles
    M
  2. Queensboro Plaza 7, N, W
    0.4 miles
    7 N W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Temple Quad Reliefs” (1992) by Frank Olt and “Stream” (2001) by Elizabeth Murray at the Court Sq-23 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 21 St/Queens Plaza South, 630 feet away, for the B62 and Q103.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 21 St/Queens Plaza South B62, Q103
    630 feet
    B62 Q103

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …
  2. Q103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 21 St & 43 Ave 27 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 21st Street, 740 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 4202 21st Street Gas station
    660 feet
  2. 25-42 Crescent Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1,300 feet
  3. 45-40 Court Square West Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11101
Community board
Queens Community Board 2
City Council district
26
Police precinct
108
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Long Island City-Hunters Point
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Mason Tenders’ Way, a co-naming enacted on December 5, 2006 (Local Law 50 of 2006).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

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 in 2022.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Mason Tenders’ Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 21st Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of 21st Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 3PM-7PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

North side of 43rd Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

South side of 43rd Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Information Technology High School
    1,040 feet
  2. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
  3. Bright Start Center Court Square Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Queensbridge Park
    940 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. 12th Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Foodcellar & Co. Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and one food store.

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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 21st Street or 43rd 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.