21 St Station: Ridership & Busiest Hours

Queens · G trains · From MTA open data, Oct 23, 2025 – Oct 22, 2026 · Not affiliated with the MTA

1,369riders a day
#398 of 424busiest stations
-0.4%vs last year so far
5 PMbusiest hour

How busy is 21 St?

About 1,369 riders a day enter 21 St (Oct 23, 2025 – Oct 22, 2026). It is the #398 busiest of 424 subway stations. Ridership at 21 St is down 0.4% in 2026 so far compared with the same days of 2025 (whole subway: +2.9%).

When is it busiest?

Average riders entering per hour, last 56 days (from Aug 28, 2026).

The busiest hour is 5 PM, with about 192 riders entering on an average day. The quietest hour is 3 AM (about 1).

  • 12 AM13
  • 1 AM5
  • 2 AM2
  • 3 AM1
  • 4 AM3
  • 5 AM9
  • 6 AM37
  • 7 AM67
  • 8 AM76
  • 9 AM50
  • 10 AM46
  • 11 AM50
  • 12 PM59
  • 1 PM67
  • 2 PM88
  • 3 PM117
  • 4 PM161
  • 5 PM192
  • 6 PM154
  • 7 PM98
  • 8 PM71
  • 9 PM62
  • 10 PM45
  • 11 PM24

Station report card

Elevators and escalators: share of hours in service over 24 hours, October 2025 – September 2026 (MTA availability). Entrapments = times riders were stuck inside an elevator. Riders vs 2019 compares the last 12 months with 2019, the last full year before the pandemic.

Accessible (ADA)No
Riders vs 201962% of the 2019 level (October 2025 – September 2026)

Where do riders from here go?

Share of subway trips starting here that end at each station, September 2026 (MTA origin-destination ridership estimate).

The top 5 destinations take 24% of subway trips that start at 21 St.

  1. 1
    Nassau AvG · Brooklyn7.1%
  2. 2
    Metropolitan Av/Lorimer StG L · Brooklyn5%
  3. 3
    Greenpoint AvG · Brooklyn4.8%
  4. 4
    Bedford-Nostrand AvsG · Brooklyn3.7%
  5. 5
    Fulton StG · Brooklyn3.5%

Lines at this station

On time = share of each line's trips reaching the last stop within 5 minutes of schedule (MTA terminal on-time performance), October 2025 – September 2026. The MTA measures this per line, not per station.

21 St is served by the G train.

G train · 86.8% on time

Nearby stations

Straight-line distance.

StationLinesRiders a dayDistance
Hunters Point Av72,7350.1 mi
Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av713,0830.2 mi
Court Sq-23 St7 E F G19,1440.3 mi
Queensboro Plaza7 N W10,1680.7 mi
Queens PlazaE F R12,5910.7 mi

Questions

How many people use 21 St station?

About 1,369 riders a day enter 21 St (Oct 23, 2025 – Oct 22, 2026). It is the #398 busiest of 424 subway stations.

When is 21 St station busiest?

The busiest hour is 5 PM, with about 192 riders entering on an average day. The quietest hour is 3 AM (about 1).

Is 21 St getting busier?

Ridership at 21 St is down 0.4% in 2026 so far compared with the same days of 2025 (whole subway: +2.9%).

Which trains stop at 21 St?

21 St is served by the G train.

Data: MTA Subway Hourly Ridership (data.ny.gov). Riders are entries at the turnstiles and OMNY readers, so transfers inside the station are not counted. Updated Oct 29, 2026. All stations ranked → · All subway ridership →
Source code: github.com/MantieReid/mta-data-analysis · Analysis by Mantie Reid II (CC BY 4.0).

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