Commuting in Flushing

The Major highways that serve the community of Flushing, Queens, New York include the Van Wyck Expressway and the Whitestone Expressway (Interstate 678), Grand Central Parkway, and the Long Island Expressway (Interstate 495). Northern Boulevard (part of New York State Route 25A) extends from the Edward I. Koch/ Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City through Flushing into Nassau County.

The community of Flushing, Queens, New York is also served by several stations on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch, as well as the New York City’s MTA Subway's IRT Flushing Line (7 trains), which has its terminal at the Flushing-Main Street station at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue.

The Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch serves Flushing via the following stations:

  • Mets–Willets Point
  • Flushing–Main Street
  • Murray Hill
  • Broadway

The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve Flushing:[164]

Q12: Little Neck via 41st and Sanford Avenues and Northern Boulevard
Q13: Fort Totten via Northern Boulevard
Q15 and Q15A: Beechhurst via 41st Avenue and 150th Street
Q16: Fort Totten via Union Street
Q17: Jamaica via Kissena Boulevard
Q19: Astoria via Northern Boulevard
Q20: A/B: to Jamaica or College Point via Main Street and Union Street
Q25: Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport (E​, ​J, and ​Z trains) or College Point via Kissena Boulevard, Main Street, and Linden Place
Q26: Fresh Meadows via 41st Avenue, Parsons Boulevard, and 48th Avenue
Q27: Cambria Heights via Kissena Boulevard and Holly and 48th Avenues
Q28: Bay Terrace via Northern Boulevard and Crocheron Avenue
Q34: Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport (E, ​J, and ​Z trains) or Linden Hill via Kissena Boulevard, Main Street, Linden Place, and 28th Avenue
Q44 SBS: Jamaica or West Farms, Bronx via Main Street and Union Street
Q48: LaGuardia Airport via Roosevelt Avenue
Q50: Co-op City, Bronx via Linden Place and Whitestone Expressway
Q58: Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues (L​ and M trains) via College Point Boulevard
Q65: Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport (E, ​J, and ​Z trains) via Bowne Street and 45th Avenue
Q66: Queensboro Plaza (7, N, R, and ​W trains) via Northern Boulevard

The N20G Nassau Inter-County Express bus route, which runs along Sanford Avenue and Northern Boulevard, terminates in Flushing.