Kissena Boulevard & Melbourne Avenue

Kissena Boulevard and Melbourne Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, Queens, at the edge of NYCHA's Pomonok development. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 1,951 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Pomonok Playground is 630 feet away, and CUNY Queens College is 1,010 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/Melbourne Av, is 80 feet away for the Q25. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and two places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Kissena Blvd/Melbourne Av · Q25
Within a walk
9 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 older adult centers and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kissena Boulevard & Melbourne Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/Melbourne Av, 80 feet away, for the Q25.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/Melbourne Av Q25 · Shelter
    80 feet
    Q25
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 154-04 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,951 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 435th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,221 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11367
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest
Elevation
96 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,700 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 in 1952.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Pomonok development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

West side of Kissena Boulevard

  • Metered parking 12 signs 6 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-10PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 7AM-7:30AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Melbourne Avenue

  • Metered parking 12 signs 6 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-10PM
  • Back-in parking only 12 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 7AM-7:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Melbourne Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-9AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 427918 and 434440.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 college
  • 1 museum
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. CUNY Queens College
    1,010 feet
  2. The Child Development Center at Queens College Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet
  3. Ivy Day School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Ivy International USA Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pomonok Playground
    630 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Godwin-Ternbach Museum
    1,060 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 67-09 Kissena Boulevard Older adult center
    520 feet
  2. Older adult center at Pomonok Older adult center
    520 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #9 Police station
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat.

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, two of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kissena Boulevard or Melbourne Avenue.

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