50th Street & Barnett Avenue

The three-way junction of 50th Street and Barnett Avenue is in Sunnyside, Queens. It lies on the edge of the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Sunnyside Gardens Park Community Center & Park Office stands 440 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 48 St/39 Av, is 850 feet away for the Q104, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
850 feet
48 St/39 Av · Q104
Within a walk
3 places
2 religious buildings and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

Layers
50th Street & Barnett Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 48 St/39 Av, 850 feet away, for the Q104.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 48 St/39 Av Q104
    850 feet
    Q104

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 50 St & Barnett Ave 25 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Northern Boulevard, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 49-01 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 45-02 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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
53 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 900 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 1931 and 1940.

Trees

Twelve trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common are the magnolia and the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 50th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 50th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Barnett Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 104 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and mostly built between 1927 and 1928.

  1. Sunnyside Gardens Park Community Center & Park Office Designated landmark
    440 feet
  2. Phipps Playground Designated landmark
    550 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Sunnyside Middle School
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Plaza 48 Shopping center
    1,110 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 50th Street or Barnett Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.