Parsons Boulevard & Sanford Avenue

Parsons Boulevard and Sanford Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 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. Flushing International High School is 960 feet away, and First Baptist Church Flushing is 1,230 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Sanford Av/Parsons Blvd, is 180 feet away for the Q13. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Sanford Av/Parsons Blvd · Q13
Within a walk
18 places
9 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Parsons Boulevard & Sanford Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sanford Av/Parsons Blvd, 180 feet away, for the Q13.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sanford Av/Parsons Blvd Q13
    180 feet
    Q13

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Parsons Boulevard and Sanford Avenue.

  • 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, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 141-54 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers
    1,000 feet
  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 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 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, April 2016
  • 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
78 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 3,200 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 1950 and 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Parsons Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Parsons Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Sanford Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Sanford Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. Honey Art Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    850 feet
  2. Flushing International High School
    960 feet
  3. J.H.S. 189 Daniel Carter Beard School
    960 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Little Learning Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  2. P.S. 020 John Bowne School
    1,110 feet
  3. Little Light Pre-K Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bowne Playground
    1,090 feet

Health care

  1. Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Nursing home or hospice
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Chinese for Christ NY Church House of worship
    1,220 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Flushing House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YWCA Flushing Recreation center
    580 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. C&A Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and six 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Parsons Boulevard or Sanford Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.