Barnett Avenue & 52nd Street

Barnett Avenue and 52nd Street meet at a three-way junction in Sunnyside Yards (South), Queens. The corner lies on the edge of the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Lawrence Virgilio Playground is 840 feet away, and Sunnyside Middle School is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, Northern Blvd, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, five of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Northern Blvd
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
48 St/39 Av · Q104
Within a walk
8 places
5 religious buildings, 1 playground and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Barnett Avenue & 52nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Northern Blvd, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Northern Blvd M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …

Also within a walk

  1. 52 St 7
    0.4 miles
    7

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 48 St/39 Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Q104.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 48 St/39 Av Q104
    0.3 miles
    Q104

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Northern Boulevard, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 50-92 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 45-02 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2022.

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 Yards (South)
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

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

East side of 52nd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of 52nd Street

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

South side of Barnett Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 48 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and mostly built in 1928.

  1. Phipps Playground Designated landmark
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school
  • 1 swimming pool

Schools and child care

  1. Sunnyside Middle School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lawrence Virgilio Playground
    840 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Windmuller Park Mini Pool Swimming pool
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

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

Shopping centers

  1. Plaza 48 Shopping center
    0.3 miles

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 signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 52nd 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.