Main Street & Maple Avenue

Main Street and Maple Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 36 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 779 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. Maple Playground is 530 feet away, and First Baptist Church Flushing is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing-Main St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them trade or language schools, and 60 places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
36 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing-Main St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Main St/Maple Av · Q20
Within a walk
11 places
3 trade or language schools, 2 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & Maple Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing-Main St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing-Main St 7
    0.3 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/Maple Av, 130 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Maple Av Q20
    130 feet
    Q20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Maple Avenue.

  • 51 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, 0.7 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
    0.3 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 36 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 9 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2023
  • Turn calming, October 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 779 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 120th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 46 more were issued.

Every corner with bus-lane 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)
Flushing-Willets Point
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,600 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 1952 and 1964.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 72 signs on these blocks
  • 21 different rules
  • 10 active meters
  • 6 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2024 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Maple Avenue (south side).

East side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-4PM 7PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING 6AM-10AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 10AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Main Street

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

North side of Maple Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 401051, 403598, 462826, 464835, 468566 and 468567.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Campus Education Trade or language school
    770 feet
  2. The Active Learning Elementary School Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  3. New York Beauty School Trade or language school
    1,220 feet
Show all 4
  1. Berlitz on Campus/Life (Flushing) Trade or language school
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Playground
    530 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Free Synagogue of Flushing Listed historic place
    900 feet
  2. Flushing Library
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Baptist Church Flushing House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Flushing Post Office Listed historic place
    390 feet
  2. Flushing Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    930 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    70 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    410 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Chung Fat Supermarket Supermarket
    100 feet
  2. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    240 feet
  3. Jmart Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. New World Mall Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 60 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Main Street or Maple Avenue.

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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.