Kissena Boulevard & Geranium Avenue

Kissena Boulevard and Geranium Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East Flushing, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Muslim Center Junior HS is 330 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/Holly Av, is 300 feet away for the Q17 and Q25, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 28 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Kissena Blvd/Holly Av · Q17, Q25
Within a walk
15 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kissena Boulevard & Geranium Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/Holly Av, 300 feet away, for the Q17 and Q25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Kissena Boulevard.

  • 7 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, 1 mile by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2022

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)
East Flushing
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 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 1955 and 1973.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

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

West side of Kissena Boulevard

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Muslim Center Junior HS School
    330 feet
  2. Little Lollipop Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    480 feet
  3. East-West School of International Studies School
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. I.S. 237 School
    1,000 feet
  2. P.S. 024 Andrew Jackson School
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    930 feet
  2. Silent Springs Playground
    940 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gold City Supermarket Supermarket
    690 feet
  2. Food Plus Supermarket
    970 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 places to eat and eight 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Geranium 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.