39th Avenue & 47th Street

The three-way junction of 39th Avenue and 47th Street is in Sunnyside, Queens, and is also named Franklin J. Havlicek Place by local law. It lies on the edge of the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Sunnyside Gardens Park Community Center & Park Office stands 480 feet away. The nearest subway, 46 St-Bliss St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places and six places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
46 St-Bliss St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
48 St/39 Av · Q104
Within a walk
7 places
5 religious buildings, 1 listed historic place and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
39th Avenue & 47th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 46 St-Bliss St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 46 St-Bliss St 7
    0.4 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, 290 feet away, for the Q104.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 39th Avenue and 47th Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at 51st Avenue & Laurel Hill Boulevard, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 49-01 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 45-02 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2021.

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
61 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Franklin J. Havlicek Place, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2026 (Local Law 48 of 2026).

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 86 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Franklin J. Havlicek Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

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

South side of 39th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 47th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 47th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 345 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and mostly built between 1926 and 1927.

  1. Sunnyside Gardens Park Community Center & Park Office Designated landmark
    480 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Sunnyside Middle School
    620 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sunnyside Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    530 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Plaza 48 Shopping center
    1,190 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and two food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 39th Avenue or 47th 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, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.