43rd Avenue & 27th Street

The five-way junction of 43rd Avenue and 27th Street is in Long Island City-Hunters Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Rafferty Triangle is 510 feet away. The nearest subway, Court Sq-23 St, is about three minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 82 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Court Sq-23 St
790 feet · 3 min on foot · 7, E, F, G
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Jackson Av/43 Av · Q101
Within a walk
10 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
43rd Avenue & 27th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Court Sq-23 St, 790 feet from this corner, about three 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
    790 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. Queensboro Plaza 7, N, W
    1,000 feet
    7 N W
  2. Queens Plaza E, F, R
    1,200 feet
    E F R

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 Jackson Av/43 Av, 310 feet away, for the Q101.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jackson Av/43 Av Q101
    310 feet
    Q101

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 27 St & Hunter St 33 docks in all
    170 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 22nd Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4202 21st Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 25-21 43rd Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    150 feet
  3. 45-40 Court Square West Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 5 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 October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2019
  • Enhanced crossing, August 2019

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
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 9,600 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 2015 and 2022.

Since 2014 at least 623 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American hornbeam.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 27th Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 43rd Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 43rd Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO MTA
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Hunter Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Hunter Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest at Jackson Avenue Streetscape.

  1. Sunbather Sculpture by Ohad Meromi, 2016
    280 feet
  2. Capt. Malcolm A. Rafferty Stele, 1937
    530 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 public space

Schools and child care

  1. District 30 Pre-K Center at 27-35 Jackson Avenue Pre-K center
    500 feet
  2. Bright Horizons at Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
  3. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
Show all 4
  1. Tle at Queens-Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care · Pre-K
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rafferty Triangle
    510 feet
  2. Court Square Park
    980 feet
  3. McKenna Triangle
    1,170 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Citicorp at Court Square Public space
    820 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 45th Road - Court House Square Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Long Island City Supreme Court Civil Term Courthouse · listed historic place
    1,040 feet

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    750 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,060 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodcellar & Co. Supermarket
    370 feet
  2. City Acres Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    990 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    830 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 82 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 27th Street, 43rd Avenue or Hunter Street.

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