Queens Boulevard & 46th Street

Queens Boulevard and 46th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Sunnyside, Queens. The corner is also named Bliss Street by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bliss Plaza is 10 feet away. The nearest subway, 46 St-Bliss St, is about a minute on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 73 places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
46 St-Bliss St
30 feet · 1 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Queens Blvd/46 St · Q32, Q60
Within a walk
10 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Queens Boulevard & 46th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 46 St-Bliss St, 30 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. 46 St-Bliss St 7
    30 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
    0.3 miles
    7
  2. 52 St 7
    0.3 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/46 St, 80 feet away, for the Q32 and Q60.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/46 St Q32, Q60 · Shelter
    80 feet
    Q32 Q60
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q32 …
  2. Q60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 116 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 46 St & Queens Blvd 33 docks in all
    130 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. 49-15 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 43-10 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2004
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2014

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
86 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Bliss Street, a co-naming enacted on June 3, 2003 (Local Law 34 of 2003).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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 1927 and 1931.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Bliss Street.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2023 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 46th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of 46th Street

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

North side of Queens Boulevard

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 4PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 4 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Queens Boulevard

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 30 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Simplified Colonial Revival or Art Deco, and built between 1924 and 1928.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. The Q Studiolab-46th St Pre-K
    560 feet
  2. Little Friends School Sunnyside Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · landmark
    650 feet
  3. I.S. 125 Thom J. McCann Woodside School
    1,100 feet
Show all 5
  1. High Five Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  2. The Q StudioLab Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sabba Park
    640 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Bliss Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    10 feet

Houses of worship

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Sunnyside Post Office
    580 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    180 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    450 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    200 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,110 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 73 places to eat and 27 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 46th 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.