Empire Eye Care, New York: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1245940816
- Legal business name
- Kings and Queens Optometry P.C.
- Registered trading name
- Empire Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 2610 Frederick Douglass Blvd
New York, NY 10030-1704 - Phone on the record
- (347) 632-2610
- NPI issued
- December 5, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- December 5, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
- County
- New York County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Kings and Queens Optometry P.C. and registered Empire Eye Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in December 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 357 of 2,166 records were updated in 2024 or later and 1,248 predate 2020.
For local context: New York holds 494 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 252 of them optometry and 242 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 10030. 442 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is B D Optical Inc in New York, 0.3 miles away.
None of this is a licensing check. CMS issues an NPI so a provider can be identified in billing transactions, and states plainly that issuance does not ensure or validate that the holder is licensed or credentialed. The New York boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
2,503 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro itself there are 2,166, 493 of them elsewhere in New York. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B D Optical Inc | New York | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (212) 234-9774 |
| Wynn Optics | New York | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (212) 491-1500 |
| Eye Care Medical PC | New York | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (631) 933-3601 |
| Harlem Vision Group Inc. | New York | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (212) 368-2020 |
| Ralph K. Jackson, M.D., P.C. | New York | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (212) 283-0333 |
Distances are straight line between registered practice locations, not driving distance. Records placed at a ZIP centroid rather than a matched street address are excluded from this comparison.
What to expect to pay at an optometry practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Empire Eye Care. Based on this site's own price research, an independent optometry practice typically charges $120 to $200 for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses, since that takes a visit to $150 to $370. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250. If price is the deciding factor, the 2,166 practices on the New York-Newark-Jersey City page give you the full local field to call around.