45th Avenue & Union Street

The four-way crossing of 45th Avenue and Union Street is in East Flushing, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 024 Andrew Jackson is 640 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/45 Av, is 440 feet away for the Q17 and Q25, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Kissena Blvd/45 Av · Q17, Q25
Within a walk
18 places
12 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
45th Avenue & Union Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/45 Av, 440 feet away, for the Q17 and Q25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 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, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 49-04 College Point Boulevard Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.6 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 five 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 September 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2019
  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2022

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
53 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 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 1988.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2018 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 45th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of 45th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

East side of Union Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Union Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 430977.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 024 Andrew Jackson School
    640 feet
  2. Little Lollipop Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet
  3. Kissena Cherry Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
Show all 4
  1. Muslim Center Junior HS School
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kissena Jewish Center Synagogue House of worship
    740 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Plus Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Gold City Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and nine 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 45th Avenue or Union Street.

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