Union Turnpike & Main Street

Union Turnpike and Main Street meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 54 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 8,033 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Judge Moses Weinstein Playground is 770 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/Union Tpke, is 90 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS, and 13 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and ten places to eat.

Safety record
31 hurt
54 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
1,300 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Main St/Union Tpke · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
3 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 playground and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Turnpike & Main Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Union Tpke, 90 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Union Tpke Q20, Q44 SBS
    90 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway westbound at Grand Central Parkway & Union Turnpike, 1,300 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 146-15 Union Turnpike Gas station
    910 feet
  2. 112-01 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.2 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 54 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 31 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 9 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 8,033 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 85th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 3,675 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Westbound on Union Turnpike7,3113,320
Eastbound on Union Turnpike722355
Total8,0333,675

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11367
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens Hills
Elevation
110 feet above sea level

Homes

About 700 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 1940 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2015 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Main 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 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Main Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Union Turnpike

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-9AM

South side of Union Turnpike

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 444414 and 454541.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Ira's Parkway Daycare & Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Judge Moses Weinstein Playground
    770 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    390 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    650 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change 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 Main Street or Union Turnpike.

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