Roosevelt Avenue & Bowne Street

Roosevelt Avenue and Bowne Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bowne Street Community Church is 170 feet away, and Lippman Plaza is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing-Main St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 40 places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
27 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing-Main St
1,180 feet · 5 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Roosevelt Av/Bowne St · Q15
Within a walk
16 places
5 religious buildings, 3 trade or language schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Roosevelt Avenue & Bowne Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing-Main St, 1,180 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing-Main St 7
    1,180 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 Roosevelt Av/Bowne St, 60 feet away, for the Q15.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Roosevelt Av/Bowne St Q15
    60 feet
    Q15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 141-54 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 27 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 16 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 June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2021
  • Turn calming, April 2022

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
59 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 4,000 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 1960 and 1975.

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
  • 49 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 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 Roosevelt Avenue (south side).

East side of Bowne Street

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

West side of Bowne Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Roosevelt Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 435330, 435331 and 435338.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1661 and 1892.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 historic site
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 020 John Bowne School
    1,000 feet
  2. NY Nail School Trade or language school
    1,050 feet
  3. American Institute of Science And Trade or language school
    1,160 feet
Show all 5
  1. Honey Art Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet
  2. Sky Language Trade or language school
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Margaret I. Carman Green - Weeping Beech Playground
    790 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Lippman Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,110 feet
  2. Public space at Flushing Commons Public space
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bowne House Historic site · listed historic place
    800 feet
  2. Weeping Beech Tree Listed historic place
    990 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bowne Street Community Church Landmark
    170 feet
  2. St Michaels Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 273/Ladder 129 Fire station
    900 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    160 feet
  2. US 1 Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Jmart Supermarket
    0.4 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 40 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bowne Street or Roosevelt Avenue.

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