Sunnyside

Neighborhood · Queens

Sunnyside lies in northwestern Queens, and this area also takes in Blissville along Newtown Creek and the part of Calvary Cemetery known as Old or First Calvary.

  • 1.71 square miles
  • 52,278 residents, 2020 Census
  • 276 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 7 bus routes

Sunnyside is named for a farm of the Bragaw family, while Blissville honors Neziah Bliss, who owned most of its land in the 1830s and 1840s before the village joined Long Island City in 1870. Sunnyside Gardens, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission counts among the city's most significant planned residential communities, has more than 600 buildings planned by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright and built from 1924 to 1928, and it became a city historic district in 2007.

Sources: Sunnyside Gardens Historic District Designation Report (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Long Island City (Wikipedia); Calvary Cemetery (Calvary & Allied Cemeteries).

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Sunnyside borders five areas, and Greenpoint Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 26 of 276.

Street map of Sunnyside, Queens, outlined among Sunnyside Yards (South), Calvary & Mount Zion Cemeteries, Maspeth and Woodside, with its four subway stations and L/CPL Thomas P. Noonan Jr. Playground.Sunnyside Yards (South)WoodsideCalvary & Mount Zion CemeteriesMaspethLong Island City-Hunters Point
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 33 St-Rawson St lines 7
  • 52 St lines 7
  • 40 St-Lowery St lines 7
  • 46 St-Bliss St lines 7

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on seven routes stop in or at the edge of Sunnyside.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 7 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B24
  • Q32
  • Q39
  • Q60
  • Q67
  • Q104
  • T320

Safety record

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

  • 2,514 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 9.1 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 37 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 56 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
39
Leading pedestrian intervals
38
Turn calming
6
Safety Improvement Projects
4
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 8,510 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 16,584 school-zone speed camera tickets at nine corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Borden Avenue & Greenpoint Avenue, 4,974
Most speed tickets
Thomson Avenue & 30th Place, 7,418

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 52,278 residents in Sunnyside, about 30,600 per square mile.

  • 22,424 homes, 2020 Census
  • 703 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,080 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 75% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
1.8 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
L/CPL Thomas P. Noonan Jr. Playground (1.1 acres), John Vincent Daniels Jr. Square (0.4 acre) and Sabba Park (0.4 acre)
Historic district
Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, wholly or partly within Sunnyside

Streets and trees

Trees
4,381 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Greenpoint Avenue, with 26 of the area's 276
Height above sea level
From 7 feet at 30th Street & Review Avenue to 103 feet at 48th Street & 47th Street
Honorary street names
23 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 15 schools and one library in Sunnyside.

Public schools
15
Library
Sunnyside Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 35 bike-share stations stand in Sunnyside. The City's public art inventory lists two works in the area: Soldiers Monument (1866) and Sunnyside Memorial (1976).

  • 35 bike-share stations
  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 568 major felonies at places in Sunnyside.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Sunnyside

  • 577 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,668 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Sunnyside, the NYPD recorded another 39 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 11.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Sunnyside.

Police precinct
108th
Major felonies recorded at places in Sunnyside, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 241 major felonies at places in Sunnyside, against 263 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.