Colden Street & Franklin Avenue

Colden Street and Franklin Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Maple Playground is 720 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing-Main St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 37 places to eat. About 4,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1961 and 1964, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
8 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing-Main St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Main St/Franklin Av · Q20
Within a walk
7 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Colden Street & Franklin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing-Main St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing-Main St 7
    0.4 miles
    7

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Happy World” (1999) by Ik-Joong Kang at the Flushing-Main St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Franklin Av, 300 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Franklin Av Q20 · Shelter
    300 feet
    Q20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 29 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, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 49-04 College Point Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 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
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2026

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
58 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 4,100 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 1961 and 1964.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

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 standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Colden Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. The Active Learning Elementary School Pre-K
    360 feet
  2. Jack & Jill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Playground
    720 feet
  2. Kissena Corridor Park
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Flushing Post Office Listed historic place
    1,030 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    660 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. New World Mall Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Colden Street or Franklin Avenue.

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