Jackson Avenue & Queens Plaza South

Jackson Avenue and Queens Plaza South meet at a three-way junction in Long Island City-Hunters Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bank of the Manhattan Company Building stands 560 feet away. The nearest subway, Queens Plaza, is about a minute on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 68 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Queens Plaza
60 feet · 1 min on foot · E, F, R
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Jackson Av/Queens Blvd · T320
Within a walk
4 places
3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jackson Avenue & Queens Plaza South Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Queens Plaza, 60 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

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

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/Queens Blvd, 60 feet away, for the T320.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jackson Av/Queens Blvd T320
    60 feet
    T320

Next buses at this stop

  1. T320 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 28 St & 41 Ave 27 docks in all
    1,080 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
    0.3 miles
  2. 44-28 Purves Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.3 miles
  3. 43-23 35th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 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
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 6,600 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 412 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 113 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American hornbeam.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2024 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Jackson Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Queens Plaza South

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Gothic, and built between 1925 and 1927.

  1. Bank of the Manhattan Company Building Designated landmark
    560 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. PlayHouse NYC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    330 feet
  2. Bright Horizons at Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    620 feet
  3. District 30 Pre-K Center at 27-35 Jackson Avenue Pre-K center
    810 feet
Show all 4
  1. Atlas School
    1,200 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,160 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    620 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 68 places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Jackson Avenue or Queens Plaza South.

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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.