147th Street & 38th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 147th Street and 38th Avenue is in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Long Island Care Center is 410 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Northern Blvd/147 St, is 610 feet away for the Q12, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Whitestone Expressway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Northern Blvd/147 St · Q12
Within a walk
10 places
6 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
147th Street & 38th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Northern Blvd/147 St, 610 feet away, for the Q12.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Northern Blvd/147 St Q12
    610 feet
    Q12

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 147-10 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    740 feet
  2. 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11354
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
20
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing
Elevation
73 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,900 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 1950 and 1971.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the goldenrain tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 53 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 147th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 147th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 38th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 16 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of 38th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-7PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Shield Institute of Flushing School
    640 feet
  2. Preschool ' R ' US Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Health care

  1. Long Island Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    410 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Conrad Voelcker House Listed historic place
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First United Methodist Church Flushing House of worship
    590 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Hanyang Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 147th Street or 38th Avenue.

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.