Main Street & Sanford Avenue

Main Street and Sanford Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 5,016 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. Flushing Post Office is 160 feet away, and Bowne Playground is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing-Main St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, four of them trade or language schools, and 94 places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing-Main St
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Sanford Av/Main St · Q58, Q98
Within a walk
18 places
4 trade or language schools, 3 playgrounds and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & Sanford Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing-Main St, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing-Main St 7
    1,080 feet
    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 Sanford Av/Main St, 60 feet away, for the Q58 and Q98.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sanford Av/Main St Q58, Q98
    60 feet
    Q58 Q98

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q58 …
  2. Q98 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Sanford Avenue.

  • 79 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. 133-11 Roosevelt Avenue 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 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 19 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.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, October 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 5,016 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 41st most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 8,779 more were issued.

Bus-lane camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on Main Street4,2968,491
Southbound on Main Street720288
Total5,0168,779

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
42 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,100 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 1951 and 1990.

Since 2014 at least 252 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 81 signs on these blocks
  • 26 different rules
  • 9 active meters
  • 6 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2023 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 Sanford Avenue (both sides).

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, commercial vehicles only 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 8:30AM-NOON EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING NOON-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING 6AM-10AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • 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 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 8AM-NOON EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING NOON-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 457631, 464835, 468565, 468566, 468927 and 469264.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 trade or language schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 career or business centers
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New York Beauty School Trade or language school
    730 feet
  2. Berlitz on Campus/Life (Flushing) Trade or language school
    820 feet
  3. Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Academy School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    900 feet
Show all 5
  1. Ultissima Beauty Inst at Flush Trade or language school
    1,120 feet
  2. Campus Education Trade or language school
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. James A. Bland Playground
    960 feet
  2. Maple Playground
    1,010 feet
  3. Bowne Playground
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Free Synagogue of Flushing Listed historic place
    420 feet
  2. Flushing Library
    440 feet
  3. Main Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Baptist Church Flushing House of worship
    1,180 feet
  2. St Michaels Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Flushing Post Office Listed historic place
    160 feet
  2. Flushing Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    440 feet
  3. NYS Department of Labor Flushing Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    1,100 feet
Show all 4
  1. Older adult center at 133-14 41st Avenue Older adult center
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    150 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    560 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Chung Fat Supermarket Supermarket
    420 feet
  2. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    730 feet
  3. Jmart Supermarket
    920 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,120 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. New World Mall Shopping center
    870 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 94 places to eat and 24 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Main Street or Sanford Avenue.

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