39th Avenue & 45th Street

The four-way crossing of 39th Avenue and 45th Street is in Sunnyside, Queens. It lies on the edge of the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Sunnyside Middle School is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, 46 St-Bliss St, is about ten minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, four of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along 39th Avenue.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
46 St-Bliss St
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
810 feet
48 St/39 Av · Q104
Within a walk
6 places
4 religious buildings, 1 listed historic place and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
39th Avenue & 45th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 46 St-Bliss St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. 46 St-Bliss St 7
    0.5 miles
    7

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Q is for Queens” (1999) by Yumi Heo at the 46 St-Bliss St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 48 St/39 Av, 810 feet away, for the Q104.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 48 St/39 Av Q104
    810 feet
    Q104

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 39th Avenue.

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 39 Ave & 45 St 19 docks in all
    30 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at 51st Avenue & Laurel Hill Boulevard, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 49-01 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 43-10 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2013.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11104
Community board
Queens Community Board 2
City Council district
26
Police precinct
108
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sunnyside
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1926 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2018 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 39th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 39th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 323 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and mostly built between 1926 and 1927.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Sunnyside Middle School
    770 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sunnyside Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Queen of Angels RC Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Plaza 48 Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 39th Avenue or 45th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.