Northern Boulevard & Main Street

Northern Boulevard and Main Street meet at a three-way junction 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. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. In 2025, 484 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Old Quaker Meeting House is 450 feet away, and Flushing Greens is 610 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing-Main St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places and 105 places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
36 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing-Main St
1,290 feet · 5 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Main St/Northern Blvd · Q20, Q25, Q50, Q61
Within a walk
26 places
10 religious buildings, 7 trade or language schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Northern Boulevard & Main Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing-Main St, 1,290 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing-Main St 7
    1,290 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 Main St/Northern Blvd, 90 feet away, for the Q20, Q25, Q50 and Q61.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Northern Blvd Q20, Q25, Q50, Q61
    90 feet
    Q20 Q25 Q50 Q61

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q25 …
  3. Q50 …
  4. Q61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 48 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway westbound, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 137-17 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    810 feet
  2. 135-23 39th Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.3 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.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 1992
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2016

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 484 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,209th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 224 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11354
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
20
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flushing-Willets Point
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to six travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 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 1997 and 2017.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 47 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 8 active meters
  • 5 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2024 and June 2025; 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 9am to 7pm on Main Street, and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 7am to 7pm on Northern Boulevard (north side).

East side of Main Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7:30AM-NOON EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING NOON-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Main Street

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

South side of Northern Boulevard

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 7AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 434977, 443333, 443334, 444495 and 455107.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1694 and 1862.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Flushing Greens.

  1. Flushing Park Memorial Obelisk, 1865
    520 feet
  2. Flushing Memorial Exedra by Herman Atkins MacNeil, 1925
    820 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 7 trade or language schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. International Beauty School Trade or language school
    190 feet
  2. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    590 feet
  3. Windsor School
    690 feet
Show all 11
  1. Alliance Computing Solutions Trade or language school
    580 feet
  2. Zoni Language Centers - Flushing, LL Trade or language school
    920 feet
  3. Children's House Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
  4. Council for Urban Employment Trade or language school
    1,210 feet
  5. English Language Learning Ctr Trade or language school
    1,210 feet
  6. Manhattan Language Center Trade or language school
    1,210 feet
  7. New York Medical Career Training Cen Trade or language school
    1,230 feet
  8. Hta of New York, Inc. - Flushing School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Daniel Carter Beard Mall
    40 feet
  2. Flushing Greens Park
    610 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Rko Keith's Theater Listed historic place
    260 feet
  2. Flushing Armory Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Flushing Town Hall Arts or cultural center · landmark · listed historic place
    610 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Old Quaker Meeting House Landmark · listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. Queens Baptist Church Flushing House of worship
    590 feet
  3. Ebenezer Baptist Church House of worship
    640 feet
Show all 4
  1. St Georges Episcopal Church Flushing Listed historic place
    980 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    870 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,010 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 99 Ranch Market Supermarket
    720 feet
  2. US 1 Supermarket Supermarket
    1,250 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 105 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Main Street or Northern Boulevard.

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