45th Avenue & Colden Street

The three-way junction of 45th Avenue and Colden Street is in Queensboro Hill, Queens, and is also named John Henry Byas, Sr. Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kissena Corridor Park is 50 feet away, and Evergreen Community Garden is 870 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/45 Av, is 960 feet away for the Q17 and Q25. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
960 feet
Kissena Blvd/45 Av · Q17, Q25
Within a walk
12 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
45th Avenue & Colden Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/45 Av, 960 feet away, for the Q17 and Q25.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/45 Av Q17, Q25
    960 feet
    Q17 Q25

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q25 …

Live arrivals

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. 49-04 College Point Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

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)
Queensboro Hill
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

This corner is also named John Henry Byas, Sr. Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 1963 and 1986.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on John Henry Byas, Sr. Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 45th Avenue

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

South side of 45th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Colden Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 botanical garden
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. East-West School of International Studies School
    770 feet
  2. I.S. 237 School
    770 feet
  3. Jack & Jill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
Show all 4
  1. Muslim Center Junior HS School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    50 feet
  2. Silent Springs Playground
    430 feet
  3. Evergreen Community Garden
    870 feet
Show all 4
  1. Queens Botanical Garden
    1,090 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 45-25 Kissena Boulevard Older adult center
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Plus Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Gold City Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Chung Fat Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 45th Avenue or Colden Street.

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