Astoria (Central)

Neighborhood · Queens

Astoria (Central) takes in the middle of Astoria in western Queens, reaching from Astoria Boulevard south to 36th Avenue with Steinway Street along its eastern edge.

  • 0.76 square miles
  • 52,220 residents, 2020 Census
  • 124 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 10 bus routes

The village of Astoria, named in 1839 for John Jacob Astor, became part of Long Island City in 1870 and of New York City in 1898, and the elevated Astoria subway line through the area opened in 1917. Filmmaking arrived in 1920-21 with a large studio on 35th Avenue that turned out more than 100 silent features, and one of its former buildings has housed the Museum of the Moving Image since 1988.

Sources: Astoria, Queens (Wikipedia); Museum of the Moving Image (Wikipedia); About (Museum of the Moving Image).

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Astoria (Central) borders four areas, and Crescent Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 15 of 124.

Street map of Astoria (Central), Queens, outlined among Astoria (East)-Woodside (North), Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Old Astoria-Hallets Point and Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, with its four subway stations.Astoria (North)-Ditmars-SteinwayAstoria (East)-Woodside (North)Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch KillsOld Astoria-Hallets Point
  • Astoria (Central)
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Astoria Blvd lines N W accessible
  • 30 Av lines N W
  • Broadway lines N W
  • 36 Av lines N W

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Astoria (Central).

  • 4 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B62
  • M60-SBS
  • Q18
  • Q19
  • Q66
  • Q69
  • Q100
  • Q101
  • Q102
  • Q104

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 1,403 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 11.3 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 4 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 29 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
21
Accessible pedestrian signals
7
Turn calming
5

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 7,140 school-zone speed camera tickets at six corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
24th Street & Hoyt Avenue South, 4,858

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 52,220 residents in Astoria (Central), about 68,700 per square mile.

  • 26,720 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,923 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,978 residential lots hold buildings from 1928 or earlier, and 66% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
0.9 acre of Athens Square, as NYC Parks maps it within Astoria (Central)
Designated landmark
The Famous Players-Lasky Studio

Streets and trees

Trees
2,705 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Crescent Street, with 15 of the area's 124
Height above sea level
From 11 feet at 23rd Street & 31st Road to 68 feet at 28th Avenue & 38th Street
Honorary street names
3 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 11 schools in Astoria (Central).

Public schools
7
Charter and private schools
4

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 18 bike-share stations stand in Astoria (Central). The City's public art inventory lists five works in the area, among them Socrates (1993), Doric Columns (1996) and Athena (1998).

  • 18 bike-share stations
  • 5 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 323 major felonies at places in Astoria (Central).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Astoria (Central)

  • 355 major felonies in 2024
  • 994 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Astoria (Central), the NYPD recorded another 116 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Astoria (Central).

Map of Astoria (Central): 13 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Astoria (Central), 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Astoria (Central), most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Astoria (Central) are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Astoria (Central) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
114th
Major felonies recorded at places in Astoria (Central), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 144 major felonies at places in Astoria (Central), against 161 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.