Colden Street & Elder Avenue

Colden Street and Elder Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 287 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Silent Springs Playground is 930 feet away, and East-West School of International Studies is 1,280 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/Elder Av, is 560 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
Main St/Elder Av · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
8 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Colden Street & Elder Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Elder Av, 560 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Elder Av Q20, Q44 SBS · Shelter
    560 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

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, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 49-04 College Point Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017
  • Turn calming, July 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 287 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,496th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 79 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
23 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 3,800 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 1963 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2019 and November 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Elder Avenue (east side).

East side of Colden Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Colden Street

  • Back-in parking only 9 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 14 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Elder Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 430986.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 botanical garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Jack & Jill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    320 feet
  2. East-West School of International Studies School
    1,280 feet
  3. I.S. 237 School
    1,280 feet
Show all 4
  1. Kissena Cherry Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    60 feet
  2. Queens Botanical Garden
    580 feet
  3. Silent Springs Playground
    930 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Plus Supermarket
    830 feet
  2. Chung Fat Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and ten 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Colden Street or Elder Avenue.

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