Main Street & Blossom Avenue

Main Street and Blossom Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kissena Corridor Park is 650 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing-Main St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 28 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Main Street, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
9 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing-Main St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
Main St/Franklin Av · Q20
Within a walk
8 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & Blossom Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing-Main St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing-Main St 7
    0.4 miles
    7

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Happy World” (1999) by Ik-Joong Kang at the Flushing-Main St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Franklin Av, 510 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Franklin Av Q20 · Shelter
    510 feet
    Q20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 31 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, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 49-04 College Point Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 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
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
43 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,900 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 1961 and 1965.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 10pm on Main Street (east side).

North side of Blossom Avenue

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

South side of Blossom Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-5PM ALL DAYS

West side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 402946, 468724 and 468988.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 botanical garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. The Active Learning Elementary School Pre-K
    930 feet
  2. Jack & Jill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    650 feet
  2. Queens Botanical Garden
    830 feet
  3. Maple Playground
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Flushing Post Office Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    810 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Chung Fat Supermarket Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  3. Food Plus Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. New World Mall Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Blossom Avenue or Main Street.

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