Queens Boulevard & 45th Street

Queens Boulevard and 45th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Sunnyside, Queens. The corner is also named Sunnyside Garden Arena Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. All Saints Episcopal Church LIC is 530 feet away. The nearest subway, 46 St-Bliss St, is about a minute on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 79 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
46 St-Bliss St
260 feet · 1 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Queens Blvd/45 St · Q32, Q60
Within a walk
14 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Queens Boulevard & 45th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 46 St-Bliss St, 260 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. 46 St-Bliss St 7
    260 feet
    7

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

Also within a walk

  1. 40 St-Lowery St 7
    1,300 feet
    7
  2. 52 St 7
    0.4 miles
    7

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Q is for Queens” (1999) by Yumi Heo at the 46 St-Bliss St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/45 St, 110 feet away, for the Q32 and Q60.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/45 St Q32, Q60 · Shelter
    110 feet
    Q32 Q60
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q32 …
  2. Q60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 130 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 46 St & Queens Blvd 33 docks in all
    390 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at 51st Avenue & Laurel Hill Boulevard, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 42-18 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    1,180 feet
  2. 43-10 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    510 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2004
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11104
Community board
Queens Community Board 2
City Council district
26
Police precinct
108
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sunnyside
Elevation
85 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sunnyside Garden Arena Way, a co-naming enacted on February 5, 2015 (Local Law 15 of 2015).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,800 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 1928 and 1932.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sunnyside Garden Arena Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 17 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

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

East side of 45th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7PM-7AM ALL DAYS

West side of 45th Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Queens Boulevard

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 4PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 425104 and 426013.

Landmarks and historic districts

Sixteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Art Deco and Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and built between 1927 and 1928.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Q Studiolab-46th St Pre-K
    820 feet
  2. Little Friends School Sunnyside Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · landmark
    910 feet
  3. The Q StudioLab Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Children's Lab School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sabba Park
    900 feet
  2. L/CPL Thomas P. Noonan Jr. Playground
    1,180 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Bliss Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    270 feet
  2. Lowery Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sunnyside Library
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. All Saints Episcopal Church LIC House of worship
    530 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Sunnyside Post Office
    320 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    440 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    710 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    460 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    850 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,060 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 79 places to eat and 26 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 45th Street or Queens Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.