39th Avenue & 51st Street

The three-way junction of 39th Avenue and 51st Street is in Sunnyside, Queens. It lies inside the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Windmuller Park Mini Pool is 800 feet away. The nearest subway, 52 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along 39th Avenue.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
52 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
830 feet
48 St/39 Av · Q104
Within a walk
7 places
3 religious buildings, 1 park and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
39th Avenue & 51st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 52 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 52 St 7
    0.4 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, 830 feet away, for the Q104.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 5 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. 50 St & Barnett Ave 25 docks in all
    700 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. 49-15 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 45-02 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes at this corner, more 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 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11377
Community board
Queens Community Board 2
City Council district
26
Police precinct
108
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sunnyside
Elevation
63 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1931 and 1951.

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
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of 39th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 51st Street

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

West side of 51st 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, 117 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and mostly built between 1927 and 1928.

  1. Phipps Playground Designated landmark
    170 feet
  2. Sunnyside Gardens Park Community Center & Park Office Designated landmark
    630 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school
  • 1 swimming pool

Schools and child care

  1. Sunnyside Middle School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lawrence Virgilio Playground
    590 feet
  2. Doughboy Park
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Windmuller Park Mini Pool Swimming pool
    800 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    1,220 feet
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Plaza 48 Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and three food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 39th Avenue or 51st 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.