147th Street & 16th Road

The three-way junction of 147th Street and 16th Road is in Whitestone-Beechhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 079 Francis Lewis is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 14 Av/147 St, is 970 feet away for the Q76, QM2 and QM32, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and two places to eat.

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147th Street & 16th Road Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 14 Av/147 St, 970 feet away, for the Q76, QM2 and QM32.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 14 Av/147 St Q76, QM2, QM32
    970 feet
    Q76 QM2 QM32

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q76 …
  2. QM2 …
  3. QM32 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway southbound at Cross Island Parkway & 149th Street, 1,260 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 15-06 149th Street Gas station
    1,100 feet
  2. 12-30 Clintonville Street Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11357
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
19
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Whitestone-Beechhurst
Elevation
63 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 079 Francis Lewis School
    620 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McKee Triangle
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,150 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.