Main Street & 59th Avenue

Main Street and 59th Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Queensboro Hill, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Lowell Upper School of Flushing is 1,110 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/60 Av, is 310 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Main Street, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
12 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
1,120 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Main St/60 Av · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
7 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & 59th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/60 Av, 310 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/60 Av Q20, Q44 SBS
    310 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Main Street carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm, every day.

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 59th Avenue.

  • 6 bicycle racks 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, 1,120 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 67-24 Main Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2016
  • Turn calming, February 2024
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2025

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)
Queensboro Hill
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2022 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 59th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 59th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-9AM

West side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8AM-8:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 444079, 447867 and 447868.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Kissena Cherry Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
  2. Lowell Upper School of Flushing School
    1,110 feet
  3. P.S. 120 Queens School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Turtle Playground
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Queensboro Hill Library
    440 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Anns Church House of worship
    1,100 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    700 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Yong Fa Supermarket Supermarket
    190 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and six 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 of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 59th Avenue or Main Street.

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.