41st Avenue & Main Street

The three-way junction of 41st Avenue and Main Street is in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens, and is also named Library Plaza by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The city lists it as a Vision Zero priority intersection. Flushing Workforce1 Career Center is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing-Main St, is about two minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, 11 of them trade or language schools, and 215 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Main Street, all day.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing-Main St
500 feet · 2 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Main St/Kissena Blvd · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
28 places
11 trade or language schools, 5 religious buildings and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
41st Avenue & Main Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing-Main St, 500 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing-Main St 7
    500 feet
    7

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Happy World” (1999) by Ik-Joong Kang at the Flushing-Main St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Kissena Blvd, 40 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Kissena Blvd Q20, Q44 SBS · Shelter
    40 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Main Street carries a bus lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 90 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound at Booth Memorial Avenue & College Point Boulevard, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 133-11 Roosevelt Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1,120 feet
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1,290 feet

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 July 2016.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11355
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
20
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flushing-Willets Point
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Library Plaza, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 1983 (Local Law 16 of 1983).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 252 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Library Plaza.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 64 signs on these blocks
  • 21 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2024 and July 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 10pm on Main Street (east side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 10pm on Main Street (west side).

North side of 41st Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of 41st Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-10PM SATURDAY 8AM-10PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 406899, 443364, 457631 and 467773.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 11 trade or language schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 career or business center
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New York Beauty School Trade or language school
    140 feet
  2. Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Academy School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    310 feet
  3. Ultissima Beauty Inst at Flush Trade or language school
    530 feet
Show all 15
  1. Council for Urban Employment Trade or language school
    810 feet
  2. English Language Learning Ctr Trade or language school
    810 feet
  3. Manhattan Language Center Trade or language school
    810 feet
  4. Chinese-American Planning Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  5. St Michael Catholic Academy School
    880 feet
  6. New York Medical Career Training Cen Trade or language school
    1,160 feet
  7. Berlitz on Campus/Life (Flushing) Trade or language school
    1,160 feet
  8. Zoni Language Centers - Flushing, LL Trade or language school
    1,180 feet
  9. Happy Maryann Day School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet
  10. Accelerated Career Advancement Train Trade or language school
    1,300 feet
  11. Compu21 Institute Trade or language school
    1,300 feet
  12. Sky Language Trade or language school
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. James A. Bland Playground
    380 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Flushing Library
    300 feet
  2. Main Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    550 feet
  3. Free Synagogue of Flushing Listed historic place
    830 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Georges Episcopal Church Flushing Listed historic place
    1,000 feet
  2. St Michaels Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Flushing Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    300 feet
  2. Older adult center at 133-14 41st Avenue Older adult center
    690 feet
  3. Flushing Post Office Listed historic place
    710 feet
Show all 4
  1. Community center at Bland Community center
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    160 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    660 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Jmart Supermarket
    330 feet
  2. C&A Supermarket Supermarket
    530 feet
  3. US 1 Supermarket Supermarket
    640 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    530 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. New World Mall Shopping center
    290 feet
  2. The Shops at SkyView Center Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 215 places to eat and 30 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 41st Avenue or Main Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.