Broadway & 37th Street

Broadway and 37th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Astoria (Central), Queens. The corner is also named Chester Carlson 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. Most Precious Blood RC Church is 320 feet away. The nearest subway, Steinway St, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them religious buildings, and 91 places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Steinway St
820 feet · 3 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Broadway/Steinway St · Q104
Within a walk
8 places
2 religious buildings, 2 trade or language schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & 37th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Steinway St, 820 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Steinway St M, R
    820 feet
    M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Broadway N, W
    0.3 miles
    N W
  2. 46 St M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Steinway St, 440 feet away, for the Q104.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Steinway St Q104 · Shelter
    440 feet
    Q104
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Steinway St & Broadway 32 docks in all
    540 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway southbound at 46th Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43-02 31st Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 31-99 33rd Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1,130 feet
  3. 34-54 44th Street 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.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11103
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
22
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Astoria (Central)
Elevation
56 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Chester Carlson Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2019 (Local Law 24 of 2019).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1921 and 1935.

Since 2014 at least 19 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 53 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 9 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 37th Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 37th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 8AM-4PM

North side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 421469, 421470, 423947 and 425412.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Empire Beauty School Trade or language school
    530 feet
  2. District 30 Pre-K Center at 3252 37th Street Pre-K center
    560 feet
  3. Betty Owen Secretarial Systems Trade or language school
    630 feet
Show all 4
  1. Urban Dove Team Charter School III School
    830 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sean's Place Park
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Broadway Library
    770 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Most Precious Blood RC Church House of worship
    320 feet
  2. Trinity Lutheran Church of Astoria and Long Island City Listed historic place
    970 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    110 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    260 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    500 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Farm Country Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    470 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,190 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 91 places to eat and 15 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 37th 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.