Queens Boulevard & Jackson Avenue

Queens Boulevard and Jackson Avenue meet at a six-way junction in Long Island City-Hunters Point, Queens. The corner is also named William Modell Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 148 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bank of the Manhattan Company Building stands 490 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 64 places to eat.

Safety record
79 hurt
148 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Queens Plaza
80 feet · 1 min on foot · E, F, R
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Jackson Av/Queens Blvd · Q96
Within a walk
4 places
3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Queens Boulevard & Jackson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Queens Plaza, 80 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
    80 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
    970 feet
    7 N W
  2. 39 Av-Dutch Kills N, W
    0.4 miles
    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/Queens Blvd, 80 feet away, for the Q96.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jackson Av/Queens Blvd Q96
    80 feet
    Q96

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q96 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Queens Plaza.

  • 12 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
    1,000 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
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 148 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 78 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 11 of those hurt, on foot
  • 12 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2024
  • Leading pedestrian interval, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11101
Community board
Queens Community Board 2
City Council district
26
Police precinct
108 and 114 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Long Island City-Hunters Point
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

This corner is also named William Modell Way, a co-naming enacted on December 20, 2010 (Local Law 3 of 2011).

The streets

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

Homes

About 6,500 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 2015 and 2022.

Since 2014 at least 288 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 128 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American hornbeam.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on William Modell Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2023 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Jackson Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Jackson Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Queens Plaza East

  • 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
    490 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
    250 feet
  2. Bright Horizons at Long Island City Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  3. District 30 Pre-K Center at 27-35 Jackson Avenue Pre-K center
    890 feet
Show all 4
  1. Atlas School
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,190 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Acres Market Supermarket
    260 feet
  2. Foodcellar & Co. Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    650 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 64 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Jackson Avenue, Queens Boulevard, Queens Plaza, Queens Plaza East or Queens Plaza South.

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