43rd Street & Barnett Avenue

The three-way junction of 43rd Street and Barnett Avenue is in Sunnyside Yards (South), Queens. It lies on the edge of 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. Torsney Playground is 840 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 48 St/39 Av, is 0.3 miles away for the Q104, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
48 St/39 Av · Q104
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
43rd Street & Barnett Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 48 St/39 Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Q104.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 48 St/39 Av Q104
    0.3 miles
    Q104

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 43rd Street and Barnett Avenue.

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet, all of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 43 St & 37 Ave 21 docks in all
    420 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at 51st Avenue & Laurel Hill Boulevard, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 39-02 Skillman Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 34-54 44th Street Charging for electric cars, one fast charger
    0.4 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.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

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 Yards (South)
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1926 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

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

East side of 43rd Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Barnett Avenue

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

South side of Barnett Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 232 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and built between 1926 and 1927.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Little Friends School Sunnyside Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,200 feet
  2. Sunnyside Middle School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Torsney Playground
    840 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Queen of Angels RC Church House of worship
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Plaza 48 Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 43rd Street or Barnett Avenue.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.