45th Avenue & Kissena Boulevard

The four-way crossing of 45th Avenue and Kissena Boulevard is in East Flushing, Queens, and is also named Corporal Julian Alberto Ramon Avenue by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kissena Jewish Center Synagogue is 1,130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/45 Av, is 100 feet away for the Q17 and Q25, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 30 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Kissena Blvd/45 Av · Q17, Q25
Within a walk
19 places
11 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
45th Avenue & Kissena Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/45 Av, 100 feet away, for the Q17 and Q25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Kissena Boulevard.

  • 11 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 49-04 College Point Boulevard Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, November 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2022
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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)
East Flushing
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Corporal Julian Alberto Ramon Avenue, a co-naming enacted on December 29, 2008 (Local Law 64 of 2008).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,400 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 1955 and 1986.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Corporal Julian Alberto Ramon Avenue.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 57 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and August 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 45th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of 45th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

East side of Kissena Boulevard

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 430986.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Muslim Center Junior HS School
    710 feet
  2. Little Lollipop Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  3. Kissena Cherry Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 024 Andrew Jackson School
    1,030 feet
  2. Honeypot Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    910 feet
  2. Silent Springs Playground
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kissena Jewish Center Synagogue House of worship
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Plus Supermarket
    590 feet
  2. Gold City Supermarket Supermarket
    1,070 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 45th Avenue or Kissena Boulevard.

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