Crescent Street & Hunter Street

Crescent Street and Hunter Street meet at a three-way junction in Long Island City-Hunters Point, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Rafferty Triangle is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Court Sq-23 St, is about a minute on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 72 places to eat. About 6,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 2015 and 2022, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Court Sq-23 St
320 feet · 1 min on foot · 7, E, F, G
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
44 Dr/23 St · B94
Within a walk
13 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Crescent Street & Hunter Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Court Sq-23 St, 320 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Court Sq-23 St 7, E, F, G
    320 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
    0.3 miles
    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 44 Dr/23 St, 360 feet away, for the B94.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 44 Dr/23 St B94
    360 feet
    B94

Next buses at this stop

  1. B94 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 44 Dr & Jackson Ave 34 docks in all
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 22nd Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 21-10 46th Road Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 44-28 Purves Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1,190 feet
  3. 45-40 Court Square West Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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
15 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 6,000 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 499 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Chinese elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2018 and October 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Crescent Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Crescent Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Hunter Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 16 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1870 and 1887.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Captain Malcolm A. Rafferty Square.

  1. Capt. Malcolm A. Rafferty Stele, 1937
    80 feet
  2. Sunbather Sculpture by Ohad Meromi, 2016
    590 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 parks
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 public space
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  2. District 30 Pre-K Center at 27-35 Jackson Avenue Pre-K center
    960 feet
  3. Tle at Queens-Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bright Start Center Court Square Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  2. Information Technology High School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rafferty Triangle
    50 feet
  2. Court Square Park
    960 feet
  3. Short Triangle
    1,140 feet
Show all 4
  1. McKenna Triangle
    1,150 feet

Plazas and public spaces

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 45th Road - Court House Square Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    800 feet
  2. Hunters Point Historic District Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Long Island City Supreme Court Civil Term Courthouse · landmark · listed historic place
    980 feet

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    700 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodcellar & Co. Supermarket
    420 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,320 feet
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    360 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 72 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Crescent Street or Hunter Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.