43rd Avenue & Crescent Street

The four-way crossing of 43rd Avenue and Crescent Street is in Long Island City-Hunters Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Court Square Park is 1,250 feet away. The nearest subway, Court Sq-23 St, is about three minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 71 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Court Sq-23 St
850 feet · 3 min on foot · 7, E, F, G
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
Jackson Av/43 Av · Q101
Within a walk
6 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
43rd Avenue & Crescent Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Court Sq-23 St, 850 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Court Sq-23 St 7, E, F, G
    850 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
    860 feet
    7 N W
  2. Queens Plaza E, F, R
    0.3 miles
    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, 580 feet away, for the Q101.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 27 St & Hunter St 33 docks in all
    450 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. 4202 21st Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 25-42 Crescent Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    140 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 five crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2023.

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
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 7,600 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 506 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese pagoda tree and the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2019 and November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of 43rd Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Crescent Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Crescent Street

  • No standing 3 signs 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
    550 feet
  2. Capt. Malcolm A. Rafferty Stele, 1937
    600 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 public space

Schools and child care

  1. District 30 Pre-K Center at 27-35 Jackson Avenue Pre-K center
    780 feet
  2. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
  3. Bright Horizons at Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rafferty Triangle
    570 feet
  2. Court Square Park
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

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

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    830 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    980 feet
  3. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodcellar & Co. Supermarket
    100 feet
  2. City Acres Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,190 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    890 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 71 places to eat and 11 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 of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 43rd Avenue or Crescent Street.

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 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.