Jackson Avenue & Purves Street

Jackson Avenue and Purves Street meet at a three-way junction in Long Island City-Hunters Point, Queens. The corner is also named Sculpture Street by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The stele “Capt. Malcolm A. Rafferty” is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Court Sq-23 St, is about two minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them parks, and 88 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Court Sq-23 St
630 feet · 2 min on foot · 7, E, F, G
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Jackson Av/Purves Av · Q101
Within a walk
10 places
4 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jackson Avenue & Purves Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Court Sq-23 St, 630 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Court Sq-23 St 7, E, F, G
    630 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. Queens Plaza E, F, R
    990 feet
    E F R
  2. Queensboro Plaza 7, N, W
    0.3 miles
    7 N W

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 Jackson Av/Purves Av, 40 feet away, for the Q101.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 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
    530 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 44-28 Purves Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    280 feet
  3. 45-40 Court Square West Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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
12 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sculpture Street, a co-naming enacted on July 1, 2013 (Local Law 50 of 2013).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 6,700 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 2010 and 2022.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Ultrazam' hackberry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sculpture Street.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday noon to 7pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 8am to 7pm on Jackson Avenue (north side).

South side of Jackson Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Purves Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 419447.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1872 and 1989.

Monuments and public art

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
    120 feet
  2. Capt. Malcolm A. Rafferty Stele, 1937
    520 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. District 30 Pre-K Center at 27-35 Jackson Avenue Pre-K center
    550 feet
  2. Tle at Queens-Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care · Pre-K
    700 feet
  3. Bright Horizons at Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Court Square Park
    620 feet
  2. Rafferty Triangle
    670 feet
  3. McKenna Triangle
    810 feet
Show all 4
  1. Short Triangle
    1,270 feet

Plazas and public spaces

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 45th Road - Court House Square Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    400 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    710 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    860 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 88 places to eat and ten food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Jackson Avenue.

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