Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway & Jackson Avenue

Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway and Jackson Avenue (south-west) meet at a four-way crossing in Long Island City-Hunters Point, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Court Square Park is 850 feet away. The nearest subway, Queens Plaza, is about three minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 74 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Queens Plaza
760 feet · 3 min on foot · E, F, R
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Jackson Av/43 Av · Q101
Within a walk
9 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway & Jackson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Queens Plaza, 760 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Plaza E, F, R
    760 feet
    E F R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
3 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
  3. R …
Manhattan
3 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
  3. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Court Sq-23 St 7, E, F, G
    860 feet
    7 E F G
  2. Queensboro Plaza 7, N, W
    0.3 miles
    7 N W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Look Up, Not Down” (2005) by Ellen Harvey at the Queens Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jackson Av/43 Av, 140 feet away, for the Q101.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jackson Av/43 Av Q101
    140 feet
    Q101

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 27 St & Hunter St 33 docks in all
    610 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. 43-10 Van Dam Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 44-28 Purves Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1,140 feet
  3. 45-40 Court Square West Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 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

The streets

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

Homes

About 8,800 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 2014 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 590 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest at Jackson Avenue Streetscape.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 public space

Schools and child care

  1. District 30 Pre-K Center at 27-35 Jackson Avenue Pre-K center
    320 feet
  2. Tle at Queens-Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care · Pre-K
    930 feet
  3. Bright Horizons at Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,060 feet
Show all 4
  1. PlayHouse NYC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Court Square Park
    850 feet
  2. Rafferty Triangle
    890 feet
  3. McKenna Triangle
    1,040 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Citicorp at Court Square Public space
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    620 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    930 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodcellar & Co. Supermarket
    810 feet
  2. City Acres Market Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,140 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 74 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ed Koch Bridge Upper Roadway or Jackson Avenue.

Sources: 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, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.