Kissena Boulevard & Elder Avenue

Kissena Boulevard and Elder Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kissena Corridor Park is 880 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/Elder Av, is 70 feet away for the Q17 and Q25, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Kissena Blvd/Elder Av · Q17, Q25
Within a walk
11 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kissena Boulevard & Elder Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/Elder Av, 70 feet away, for the Q17 and Q25.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/Elder Av Q17, Q25 · Shelter
    70 feet
    Q17 Q25
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Kissena Boulevard.

  • 13 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
    0.7 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
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2016
  • Turn calming, April 2022
  • 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
59 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 4,500 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 1958 and 1983.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the pin oak and the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2019 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Elder Avenue (east side) and Kissena Boulevard (east side).

North side of Elder Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Elder Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Kissena Boulevard

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 430986 and 431341.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Kissena Cherry Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    500 feet
  2. Honeypot Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  3. Jack & Jill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet
Show all 5
  1. Muslim Center Junior HS School
    1,160 feet
  2. Little Lollipop Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    880 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    420 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Plus Supermarket
    140 feet
  2. Gold City Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and seven 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 Elder 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 and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.