39th Avenue & 52nd Street

The three-way junction of 39th Avenue and 52nd 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. Phipps Playground stands 420 feet away. The nearest subway, 52 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along 39th Avenue.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
52 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
1,090 feet
48 St/39 Av · Q104
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
39th Avenue & 52nd 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, 1,090 feet away, for the Q104.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 48 St/39 Av Q104
    1,090 feet
    Q104

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 7 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. 39 Dr & 52 St 19 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Northern Boulevard, 1.1 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

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 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
67 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 2,300 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 1963.

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
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2018 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 39th Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 39th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 52nd Street

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

West side of 52nd Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • 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, 69 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and mostly built in 1928.

  1. Phipps Playground Designated landmark
    420 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lawrence Virgilio Playground
    370 feet
  2. Doughboy Park
    1,020 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Windmuller Park Mini Pool Swimming pool
    540 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Plaza 48 Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 39th Avenue or 52nd Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYPD, 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.