46th Street & Skillman Avenue

The four-way crossing of 46th Street and Skillman Avenue is in Sunnyside, Queens, and is also named Ethel Plimack Way by local law. 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. All Saints Episcopal Church LIC is 780 feet away. The nearest subway, 46 St-Bliss St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
46 St-Bliss St
1,250 feet · 5 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
48 St/Skillman Av · Q104
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
46th Street & Skillman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 46 St-Bliss St, 1,250 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. 46 St-Bliss St 7
    1,250 feet
    7

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

Also within a walk

  1. 52 St 7
    0.4 miles
    7

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Q is for Queens” (1999) by Yumi Heo at the 46 St-Bliss St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 48 St/Skillman Av, 540 feet away, for the Q104.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 48 St/Skillman Av Q104
    540 feet
    Q104

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Skillman Avenue.

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 48 St & Skillman Ave 22 docks in all
    560 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. 43-10 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2023.

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
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Ethel Plimack Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 85 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Ethel Plimack Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 46th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 46th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Skillman Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Skillman Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 412796 and 426752.

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 371 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and mostly built between 1925 and 1927.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Little Friends School Sunnyside Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
  2. The Q Studiolab-46th St Pre-K
    790 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Torsney Playground
    830 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Bliss Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sunnyside Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    830 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Queen of Angels RC Church House of worship
    470 feet
  2. All Saints Episcopal Church LIC House of worship
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  2. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    1,110 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Plaza 48 Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 46th Street or Skillman 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, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.