Bowne Street & Franklin Avenue

Bowne Street and Franklin Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is 230 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Sanford Av/Bowne St, is 550 feet away for the Q26, Q27 and Q65, and 14 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
Bowne Street & Franklin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sanford Av/Bowne St, 550 feet away, for the Q26, Q27 and Q65.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sanford Av/Bowne St Q26, Q27, Q65
    550 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
    0.6 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 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 10 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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
69 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 3,100 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 1932 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 42 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2023 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bowne Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Bowne Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 445488.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 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
    370 feet
  2. P.S. 020 John Bowne School
    850 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bowne Playground
    830 feet

Health care

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

Houses of worship

  1. Chinese for Christ NY Church House of worship
    280 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Flushing House of worship
    920 feet
  3. Kissena Jewish Center Synagogue House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YWCA Flushing Recreation center
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and seven 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bowne Street or Franklin Avenue.

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.