Austin Street & Ascan Avenue

Austin Street and Ascan Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Forest Hills, Queens. The corner is also named Geraldine Ferraro Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic is 200 feet away. The nearest subway, 75 Av, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 41 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
75 Av
950 feet · 4 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
460 feet
Queens Blvd/Ascan Av · Q60, QM18
Within a walk
9 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Austin Street & Ascan Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 75 Av, 950 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 75 Av E, F
    950 feet
    E F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Forest Hills-71 Av E, F, M, R
    0.3 miles
    E F M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/Ascan Av, 460 feet away, for the Q60 and QM18.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/Ascan Av Q60, QM18
    460 feet
    Q60 QM18

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q60 …
  2. QM18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Queens Blvd N & 72 Rd 16 docks in all
    870 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound at Grand Central Parkway & 72nd Road, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 100-16 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 112-20 72nd Drive Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11375
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
29
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Forest Hills
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Geraldine Ferraro Way, a co-naming enacted on July 11, 2011 (Local Law 47 of 2011).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 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 1932 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Geraldine Ferraro Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 99 signs on these blocks
  • 25 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 5 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2023 and September 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Austin Street (south side), and as 3 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Austin Street (south side).

East side of Ascan Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ascan Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Austin Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 403258, 464141, 464662, 464663 and 469386.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Medieval, and built between 1922 and 1924.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic School
    200 feet
  2. The Church in the Gardens Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    460 feet
  3. Austin Medical Assistant Training LL Trade or language school
    540 feet
Show all 5
  1. One Stop Academy Trade or language school
    730 feet
  2. Church in the Gardens Community House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ehrenreich-Austin Playground
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church in the Gardens Listed historic place
    680 feet
  2. First Church Christ Scientist Forest Hills House of worship
    1,220 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 305/Ladder 151 Fire station · landmark
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,170 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 41 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ascan Avenue or Austin 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 Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.