Grand Central Parkway & Main Street

Grand Central Parkway and Main Street meet at a four-way crossing in Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 526 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Judge Moses Weinstein Playground is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, Briarwood, is about nine minutes on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Briarwood
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Main St/Grand Central Pkwy · Q20
Within a walk
4 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 playground and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Grand Central Parkway & Main Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Briarwood, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Briarwood E, F
    0.5 miles
    E F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Grand Central Pkwy, 150 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 17 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Grand Central Pkwy Q20
    150 feet
    Q20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway westbound at Grand Central Parkway & Union Turnpike, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 146-15 Union Turnpike Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 526 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 142nd most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 2,918 more were issued.

Red-light camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on Main Street5262,433
Eastbound on Grand Central Parkway–276
Westbound on Grand Central Parkway–209
Total5262,918

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11435
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica Hills-Briarwood
Elevation
113 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 30 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2015 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Grand Central Parkway

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Grand Central Parkway

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Main Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Main Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Ira's Parkway Daycare & Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    240 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Judge Moses Weinstein Playground
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,170 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Grand Central Parkway or Main Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.