Main Street & Elder Avenue

Main Street and Elder Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Queensboro Hill, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 1,464 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. NYHMC Playground is 950 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/Elder Av, is 40 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
23 hurt
27 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Main St/Elder Av · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
5 places
1 botanical garden, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & Elder Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Elder Av, 40 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Elder Av Q20, Q44 SBS · Shelter
    40 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Main Street carries a bus lane, 6am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm on Monday to Saturday.

Cycling

  • 11 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
    0.5 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
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 27 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 23 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 10 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, November 2018

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,464 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 559th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 666 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,200 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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2021 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 4 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Main Street (west side).

North side of Elder Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Elder Avenue

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

East side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-4PM 7PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 7 signs 4 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 9 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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 401696, 433418 and 447386.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 botanical garden
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Jack & Jill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Queens Botanical Garden
    140 feet
  2. Kissena Corridor Park
    180 feet
  3. NYHMC Playground
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Plus Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Chung Fat Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and seven 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Botanical Garden Entrance, Elder Avenue or Main Street.

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