Beech Avenue & Phlox Place

Beech Avenue and Phlox Place meet at a three-way junction in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. YWCA Flushing is 550 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Parsons Blvd/Beech Av, is 550 feet away for the Q26 and Q27, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
550 feet
Parsons Blvd/Beech Av · Q26, Q27
Within a walk
18 places
13 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beech Avenue & Phlox Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Parsons Blvd/Beech Av, 550 feet away, for the Q26 and Q27.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Parsons Blvd/Beech Av Q26, Q27
    550 feet
    Q26 Q27

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q26 …
  2. Q27 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 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
    0.7 miles
  2. 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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 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 May 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)
Flushing-Willets Point
Elevation
70 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 1930 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2021 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Beech Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Phlox Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Phlox Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. The Little Learning Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    680 feet
  2. Honeypot Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  3. Honey Art Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet

Health care

  1. Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Nursing home or hospice
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kissena Jewish Center Synagogue House of worship
    770 feet
  2. Chinese for Christ NY Church House of worship
    1,050 feet
  3. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YWCA Flushing Recreation center
    550 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Plus Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beech Avenue or Phlox Place.

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