Crescent Street & 40th Avenue

Crescent Street and 40th Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens. The corner is also named Nicolas A. Nowillo Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. St Patricks Church is 710 feet away. The nearest subway, Queensboro Plaza, is about five minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Queensboro Plaza
1,300 feet · 5 min on foot · 7, N, W
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
31 St/40 Av · Q108
Within a walk
13 places
8 religious buildings, 3 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Crescent Street & 40th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Queensboro Plaza, 1,300 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queensboro Plaza 7, N, W
    1,300 feet
    7 N W

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
3 lines
  1. 7 …
  2. N …
  3. W …
Astoria
2 lines
  1. N …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. 21 St-Queensbridge M
    0.3 miles
    M
  2. 39 Av-Dutch Kills N, W
    0.3 miles
    N W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Columns” (2000) by Sydney Cash at the Queensboro Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 31 St/40 Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Q108.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 31 St/40 Av Q108
    0.3 miles
    Q108

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q108 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Crescent Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 40 Ave & Crescent St 23 docks in all
    40 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. 40-40 Crescent Street Gas station
    550 feet
  2. 25-42 Crescent Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 32-16 36th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

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.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11101
Community board
Queens Community Board 1
City Council district
26
Police precinct
114
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Nicolas A. Nowillo Place, a co-naming enacted on December 28, 2009 (Local Law 92 of 2009).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Nicolas A. Nowillo Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2014 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 40th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 40th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM

East side of Crescent Street

  • No stopping 9 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Crescent Street

  • No stopping 9 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Academy of American Studies School
    690 feet
  2. Growing Up Green Charter School
    830 feet
  3. Atlas School
    1,030 feet
Show all 4
  1. SCO Family of Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Windmill Community Garden
    950 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Evangel Christian Church House of worship
    290 feet
  2. St Patricks Church House of worship
    710 feet
  3. Bosnian Hercegovinian Islamic Center House of worship
    1,080 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodcellar & Co. Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. City Acres Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and nine food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 40th Avenue or Crescent Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.