Main Street & Cherry Avenue

Main Street and Cherry Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. The corner is also named Allison Hope Liao Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Queens Botanical Garden is 500 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/Elder Av, is 510 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
Main St/Elder Av · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 botanical garden and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & Cherry Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Elder Av, 510 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Elder Av Q20, Q44 SBS
    510 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

  • 25 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, 0.6 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
    0.5 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2014
  • Turn calming, October 2023

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
37 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Allison Hope Liao Way, a co-naming enacted on August 10, 2015 (Local Law 76 of 2015).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 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 between 1959 and 1965.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Allison Hope Liao Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 56 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2024 and October 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cherry Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cherry Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-4PM 7PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING 6AM-10AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 404912, 467391 and 468724.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 botanical garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Jack & Jill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  2. The Active Learning Elementary School Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    320 feet
  2. Queens Botanical Garden
    500 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Chung Fat Supermarket Supermarket
    1,220 feet
  2. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Plus Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. New World Mall Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 12 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cherry Avenue or Main Street.

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