Long Island Expressway & 51st Avenue Footbridge

Long Island Expressway and 51st Avenue Footbridge 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. Notorious LIC Park is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, Hunters Point Av, is about two minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and ten places to eat. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 2007 and 2016, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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Long Island Expressway & 51st Avenue Footbridge Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Hunters Point Av, 550 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hunters Point Av 7
    550 feet
    7

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

Also within a walk

  1. 21 St G
    1,160 feet
    G
  2. Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av 7
    0.3 miles
    7

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Hunters Point Project” (2012) by Tricia Keightley at the Hunters Point Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 49 Av/21 St, 440 feet away, for the Q67.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 49 Av/21 St Q67
    440 feet
    Q67

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 49 Ave & 21 St 21 docks in all
    460 feet

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

Homes

About 500 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 2007 and 2016.

Since 2014 at least 59 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

One tree recorded by NYC Parks stands within 330 feet, a tree of heaven.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Notorious LIC Park
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and one food store.

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 corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

Sources: MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYC City Planning, NYPD, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 3, 2026.