Kissena Boulevard & Beech Avenue

Kissena Boulevard and Beech Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Chinese for Christ NY Church is 1,240 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/Ash Av, is 320 feet away for the Q17 and Q25, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Kissena Blvd/Ash Av · Q17, Q25
Within a walk
7 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kissena Boulevard & Beech Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/Ash Av, 320 feet away, for the Q17 and Q25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Kissena Boulevard.

  • 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, 0.9 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
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2022
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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
65 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,500 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 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

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

North side of Beech Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Beech Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Kissena Boulevard

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Honeypot Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    150 feet
  2. Kissena Cherry Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    390 feet
  3. The Active Learning Elementary School Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Playground
    990 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Chinese for Christ NY Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    260 feet

Supermarkets

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

Shopping centers

  1. New World Mall Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and nine 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beech Avenue or Kissena Boulevard.

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