Sunnyside Yards (South)

Queens

Sunnyside Yards (South) holds the southern part of Sunnyside Yard, the broad band of tracks that extends east toward Woodside, edged on the south by Skillman Avenue.

  • 0.32 square miles
  • 18 street corners
  • 3 bus routes

The Pennsylvania Railroad completed the yard in 1910, the year its tunnels under the East River to Pennsylvania Station opened, and Harold Interlocking at the yard's eastern end, where Amtrak's Northeast Corridor crosses the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line, ranks among the busiest rail junctions in the country. In 2020 the city's Economic Development Corporation and Amtrak released a master plan that proposed decking over the yard for housing, jobs and public space.

Sources: Sunnyside Yard (Wikipedia); Sunnyside Yard Master Plan (New York City Economic Development Corporation).

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Sunnyside Yards (South) borders five areas, and Skillman Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 12 of 18.

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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on three routes stop in or at the edge of Sunnyside Yards (South).

  • 3 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q32
  • Q39
  • Q60

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 140 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.8 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 3 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at two of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
2
Accessible pedestrian signals
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 2,590 school-zone speed camera tickets at one corner
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
27th Street & Skillman Avenue, 2,590

Parks

Parkland
2.1 acres of Torsney Playground, as NYC Parks maps it within Sunnyside Yards (South)

Streets and trees

Trees
199 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, thornless honeylocust and river birch
Street with the most corners
Skillman Avenue, with 12 of the area's 18
Height above sea level
From 11 feet at 27th Street & Skillman Avenue to 71 feet at Skillman Avenue & 39th Place
Honorary street name
1 at its corners, enacted by local law

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, two bike-share stations stand in Sunnyside Yards (South).

  • 2 bike-share stations

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.