Barclay Avenue & Bowne Street

Barclay Avenue and Bowne Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 020 John Bowne is 250 feet away, and Chinese for Christ NY Church is 800 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing-Main St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing-Main St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Sanford Av/Bowne St · Q26, Q27, Q65
Within a walk
15 places
8 religious buildings, 1 career or business center and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Barclay Avenue & Bowne Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing-Main St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing-Main St 7
    0.4 miles
    7

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Happy World” (1999) by Ik-Joong Kang at the Flushing-Main St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sanford Av/Bowne St, 350 feet away, for the Q26, Q27 and Q65.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sanford Av/Bowne St Q26, Q27, Q65
    350 feet
    Q26 Q27 Q65

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q26 …
  2. Q27 …
  3. Q65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 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, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 141-54 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2016

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)
Flushing-Willets Point
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,700 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 1968.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2021 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Barclay Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Barclay Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Bowne Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Bowne Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 020 John Bowne School
    250 feet
  2. Honey Art Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    440 feet
  3. Berlitz on Campus/Life (Flushing) Trade or language school
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bowne Playground
    590 feet

Health care

  1. Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Nursing home or hospice
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Michaels Church House of worship
    770 feet
  2. Chinese for Christ NY Church House of worship
    800 feet
  3. First Baptist Church Flushing House of worship
    810 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bowne Street Community Church House of worship
    890 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. NYS Department of Labor Flushing Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    800 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 273/Ladder 129 Fire station
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    910 feet
  2. C&A Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Jmart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. New World Mall Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Barclay Avenue or Bowne Street.

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