Broadway & 12th Street

Broadway and 12th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Socrates Sculpture Park is 470 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Broadway/11 St, is 300 feet away for the Q104, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Queensboro Bridge
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Broadway/11 St · Q104
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & 12th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/11 St, 300 feet away, for the Q104.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/11 St Q104 · Shelter
    300 feet
    Q104
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & 12 St 31 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 21st Street & Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 32-05 21st Street Gas station
    1,310 feet
  2. 26-19 2nd Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 32-16 36th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11106
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills
Elevation
9 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,200 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 between 1996 and 2015.

Since 2014 at least 53 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2019 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

West side of 12th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Broadway

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Broadway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as German Romanesque Revival and Mid-20th Century Modern, one each, and built between 1886 and 1958.

  1. Barkin, Levin & Company Office Pavilion Designated landmark
    390 feet
  2. Sohmer & Company Piano Factory Designated landmark
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 beach
  • 1 museum
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ideal Islamic School
    480 feet
  2. Long Island City High School
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Socrates Sculpture Park
    470 feet
  2. Halletts Cove Beach
    1,010 feet
  3. Astoria Health Playground
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. Rainey Park
    1,220 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Costco Public space
    510 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Noguchi Museum
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    1,300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Street or Broadway.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.