Jackson Avenue & Queens Street

Jackson Avenue and Queens Street 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. The sculpture “Sunbather” is 400 feet away. The nearest subway, Queens Plaza, is about two minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 76 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Queens Plaza
460 feet · 2 min on foot · E, F, R
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
Jackson Av/42 Rd · Q100
Within a walk
7 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jackson Avenue & Queens Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Queens Plaza, 460 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Plaza E, F, R
    460 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
    1,160 feet
    7 E F G
  2. Queensboro Plaza 7, N, W
    1,220 feet
    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/42 Rd, 240 feet away, for the Q100.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jackson Av/42 Rd Q100
    240 feet
    Q100

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 27 St & Hunter St 33 docks in all
    920 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. 43-10 Van Dam Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 44-28 Purves Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    820 feet
  3. 45-40 Court Square West Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 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
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 8,400 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 2018.

Since 2014 at least 612 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and September 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Jackson Avenue (north side).

South side of Jackson Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

East side of Queens Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Queens Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 422025 and 429561.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Jackson Avenue Streetscape.

  1. Sunbather Sculpture by Ohad Meromi, 2016
    400 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 courthouse

Schools and child care

  1. District 30 Pre-K Center at 27-35 Jackson Avenue Pre-K center
    170 feet
  2. Bright Horizons at Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  3. PlayHouse NYC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. Tle at Queens-Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Court Square Park
    1,150 feet
  2. Rafferty Triangle
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Long Island City Supreme Court Civil Term Courthouse · listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    920 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Acres Market Supermarket
    860 feet
  2. Foodcellar & Co. Supermarket
    1,110 feet
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    840 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 76 places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.