Bowne Street & Ash Avenue

Bowne Street and Ash Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. YWCA Flushing is 910 feet away, and P.S. 020 John Bowne is 1,150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Sanford Av/Bowne St, is 850 feet away for the Q26, Q27 and Q65, and 11 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
850 feet
Sanford Av/Bowne St · Q26, Q27, Q65
Within a walk
21 places
13 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bowne Street & Ash Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sanford Av/Bowne St, 850 feet away, for the Q26, Q27 and Q65.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q26 …
  2. Q27 …
  3. Q65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 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 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 141-54 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2020

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
71 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2022 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ash Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Ash Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Bowne Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Bowne Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 445488.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Honey Art Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    670 feet
  2. Honeypot Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  3. P.S. 020 John Bowne School
    1,150 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Little Learning Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet
  2. Kissena Cherry Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bowne Playground
    1,130 feet

Health care

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

Houses of worship

  1. Chinese for Christ NY Church House of worship
    470 feet
  2. Kissena Jewish Center Synagogue House of worship
    930 feet
  3. First Baptist Church Flushing House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YWCA Flushing Recreation center
    910 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Plus Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk 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 Ash 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 and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.