Queens Midtown Tunnel & Center Boulevard

Queens Midtown Tunnel and Center Boulevard 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. The sculpture “Tetherball Monument” is 130 feet away, and Hunters Point Library is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and six places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Center Boulevard.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Center Blvd/Borden Av · Q101, Q103
Within a walk
14 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Queens Midtown Tunnel & Center Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av 7
    0.4 miles
    7

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Center Blvd/Borden Av, 40 feet away, for the Q101 and Q103.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Center Blvd/Borden Av Q101, Q103
    40 feet
    Q101 Q103

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q101 …
  2. Q103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Center Boulevard.

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Center Blvd & 51 Ave 23 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Queensboro Bridge at 21st Street, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 21-10 46th Road Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1-55 Borden Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    260 feet
  3. 45-40 Court Square West Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 3,100 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 2012 and 2019.

Since 2014 at least 721 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 151 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the cherry.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Hunters Point Park.

  1. Tetherball Monument Sculpture by Karyn Olivier, 2015
    130 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 dog run
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Rainbow Child Development Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    180 feet
  2. Academy for Careers in Television and Film School
    200 feet
  3. Hunters Point Community Middle School
    200 feet
Show all 6
  1. Kuei Luck Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  2. Brighter Babies Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    640 feet
  3. Building Brilliance Day Care II Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hunter's Point South Park
    20 feet
  2. Hunter's Point South Playground (North) Playground
    190 feet
  3. Dog Run in Hunter's Point South Park Dog run
    330 feet
Show all 6
  1. Gantry Plaza State Park
    540 feet
  2. Luminescence in Hunter's Point South Park Park feature
    760 feet
  3. Hunter's Point South Playground (South) Playground
    1,000 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hunters Point Library
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Urban Market Supermarket
    820 feet
  2. Foodcellar & Co. Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    730 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other places

  1. Hunters Point South Ferry Landing
    420 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and two food stores.

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Center Boulevard or Queens Midtown Tunnel.

Sources: MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.