Kissena Boulevard & Ash Avenue

Kissena Boulevard and Ash Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Maple Playground is 750 feet away, and First Baptist Church Flushing is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing-Main St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing-Main St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Kissena Blvd/Ash Av · Q17, Q25
Within a walk
10 places
5 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kissena Boulevard & Ash Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing-Main St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing-Main St 7
    0.5 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 Kissena Blvd/Ash Av, 80 feet away, for the Q17 and Q25.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/Ash Av Q17, Q25 · Shelter
    80 feet
    Q17 Q25
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Kissena Boulevard.

  • 10 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, 0.8 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
    0.3 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in 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
62 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 5,600 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 1959 and 1965.

Trees

Twenty trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2024 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ash Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Ash Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Kissena Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Honeypot Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    390 feet
  2. Kissena Cherry Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
  3. The Active Learning Elementary School Pre-K
    910 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Playground
    750 feet

Health care

  1. Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Nursing home or hospice
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Chinese for Christ NY Church House of worship
    1,000 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Flushing House of worship
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    500 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Plus Supermarket
    800 feet
  2. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Chung Fat Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 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 15 places to eat and ten 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 corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ash Avenue or Kissena Boulevard.

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