Colden Street & Geranium Avenue

Colden Street and Geranium Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Queensboro Hill, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Silent Springs Playground is 60 feet away, and Jehovahs Witness Kingdom Hall Flushing is 970 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/Holly Av, is 1,170 feet away for the Q17 and Q25, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,170 feet
Kissena Blvd/Holly Av · Q17, Q25
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Colden Street & Geranium Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/Holly Av, 1,170 feet away, for the Q17 and Q25.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/Holly Av Q17, Q25 · Shelter
    1,170 feet
    Q17 Q25
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q25 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound at Booth Memorial Avenue & College Point Boulevard, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2019

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)
Queensboro Hill
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 1962 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Colden Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Colden Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Geranium Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Geranium Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. East-West School of International Studies School
    390 feet
  2. I.S. 237 School
    390 feet
  3. Muslim Center Junior HS School
    720 feet
Show all 4
  1. Jack & Jill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    50 feet
  2. Silent Springs Playground
    60 feet
  3. Evergreen Community Garden
    490 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witness Kingdom Hall Flushing House of worship
    970 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 45-25 Kissena Boulevard Older adult center
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gold City Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Plus Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Colden Street or Geranium 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.