ZIP 11106 is the southern half of Astoria, from Broadway down to 36th Avenue, where the neighborhood blurs into Long Island City. It is the artist-density ZIP: Socrates Sculpture Park, the Noguchi Museum across the line, dozens of converted-warehouse studios.
Loft buildings, a heavier industrial footprint, the steel + glass of LIC creeping north. Athens Square Park hosts free outdoor jazz and Greek dance classes through the summer. Broadway is the dense restaurant strip, Sanfords, Pye Boat Noodle, the Astoria Bier Halls. The ZIP straddles two distinct moods: residential prewar to the north of Broadway, harder commercial / industrial to the south.
Broadway and 36th Avenue both have N/W stops inside 11106. The Q102 and Q104 buses cross the ZIP east-west. Drivers from the Ditmars depot reach the heart of 11106 in 8-12 minutes via 31st Street.
The 4.5-acre outdoor sculpture park on the East River at Vernon Boulevard + Broadway, free admission, rotating large-scale commissions.
The Greek civic-anchor park at 30th Avenue + 30th Street, Athena statue, marble columns, summer outdoor performances.
The east-west restaurant + bar strip from 31st Street to Steinway, anchored by the Broadway N/W stop.
