39th Avenue & 48th Street

The four-way crossing of 39th Avenue and 48th Street is in Sunnyside, Queens. It lies inside the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Sunnyside Gardens Park Community Center & Park Office stands 270 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 seven places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
46 St-Bliss St
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
80 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 & 48th 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, 80 feet away, for the Q104.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 39th Avenue and 48th Street.

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 48 St & Barnett Ave 18 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Northern Boulevard, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 49-01 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 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 four crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2026

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
57 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1931.

Trees

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2018 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 39th Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 39th Avenue

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

East side of 48th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 48th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 305 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and mostly built between 1925 and 1927.

  1. Sunnyside Gardens Park Community Center & Park Office Designated landmark
    270 feet
  2. Phipps Playground Designated landmark
    610 feet

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
    360 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sunnyside Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    1,220 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Plaza 48 Shopping center
    930 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and one food store.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 39th Avenue or 48th Street.

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