39th Avenue & 49th Street

The three-way junction of 39th Avenue and 49th Street is in Sunnyside, Queens, and is also named Alexander M. Bing Place by local law. It lies inside the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Sunnyside Gardens Park Community Center & Park Office stands 210 feet away. The nearest subway, 52 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
52 St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
48 St/39 Av · Q104
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings, 1 listed historic place and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
39th Avenue & 49th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 52 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 52 St 7
    0.5 miles
    7

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 48 St/39 Av, 310 feet away, for the Q104.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 39th Avenue and 49th Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 48 St & Barnett Ave 18 docks in all
    590 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 45-02 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 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 October 2019.

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 Alexander M. Bing Place, a co-naming enacted on July 29, 2018 (Local Law 139 of 2018).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1931 and 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 83 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Alexander M. Bing Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

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

North side of 39th Avenue

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

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 49th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of 49th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 262 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and mostly built between 1926 and 1928.

  1. Sunnyside Gardens Park Community Center & Park Office Designated landmark
    210 feet
  2. Phipps Playground Designated landmark
    350 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Sunnyside Middle School
    620 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lawrence Virgilio Playground
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sunnyside Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. H Mart 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 ten places to eat and two food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 39th Avenue or 49th 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, 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.