Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway

Neighborhood · Queens

Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway spans the northern end of Astoria in Queens, from Ditmars, which reaches from the East River to 31st Street beside Bowery Bay, east through Steinway and Astoria Heights toward LaGuardia Airport.

  • 2.09 square miles
  • 50,225 residents, 2020 Census
  • 330 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 6 bus routes

Ditmars Boulevard honors Abram Ditmars, elected the first mayor of Long Island City in 1870, and Steinway grew as a company town of the Steinway & Sons piano firm, whose factory has operated here since the late 1800s. William Steinway bought the Italianate villa now known as Steinway House in the 1870s, and the Lent Homestead on 19th Road, a Dutch Colonial farmhouse tied to the Riker and Lent families, is also a city landmark.

Sources: Astoria, Queens (Wikipedia); Steinway House (LP-0632) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Lent Homestead (LP-0135) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway borders six areas, and Ditmars Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 41 of 330.

Street map of Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, Queens, outlined among Astoria (Central), Astoria Park, Astoria (East)-Woodside (North) and LaGuardia Airport, with its two subway stations and Ralph Demarco Park.LaGuardia AirportJackson HeightsAstoria (East)-Woodside (North)Astoria (Central)Astoria Park
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Astoria-Ditmars Blvd lines N W
  • Astoria Blvd lines N W accessible

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on six routes stop in or at the edge of Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway.

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

Local bus routes

  • M60-SBS
  • Q19
  • Q33
  • Q69
  • Q100
  • Q101

Safety record

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

  • 1,930 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 5.8 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 77 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 47 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
32
Accessible pedestrian signals
20
Turn calming
5
Enhanced crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

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

  • 4,516 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 51,724 school-zone speed camera tickets at 17 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
31st Street & Astoria Boulevard North, 4,516
Most speed tickets
42nd Street & Astoria Boulevard North, 29,905

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 50,225 residents in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, about 24,000 per square mile.

  • 22,958 homes, 2020 Census
  • 807 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 6,560 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 63% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
13.9 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Ralph Demarco Park (3.3 acres), Hoyt Playground (2.3 acres) and Paul Raimonda Playground (1.3 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
5,277 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Ditmars Boulevard, with 41 of the area's 330
Height above sea level
From 9 feet at 41st Street & Berrian Boulevard to 66 feet at 38th Street & Astoria Boulevard North
Honorary street names
15 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists nine schools and one library in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
4
Library
Steinway Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 38 bike-share stations stand in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Christopher Columbus (1941).

  • 38 bike-share stations
  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 415 major felonies at places in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway

  • 468 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,504 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, the NYPD recorded another 37 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 9.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway.

Map of Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway: 14 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 (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, 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 (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, most about 1,500 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 (North)-Ditmars-Steinway 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 (North)-Ditmars-Steinway and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
114th
Major felonies recorded at places in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 231 major felonies at places in Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, against 214 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.