147th Street & 68th Road

The four-way crossing of 147th Street and 68th Road is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Townsend Harris High School is 990 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/Melbourne Av, is 1,240 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

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147th Street & 68th Road Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Melbourne Av, 1,240 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Melbourne Av Q20, Q44 SBS · Shelter
    1,240 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 67-24 Main Street Gas station
    1,140 feet
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1.7 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11367
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens Hills
Elevation
81 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1954.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2014 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 147th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 147th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 68th Road

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of 68th Road

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Townsend Harris High School
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Seasons Express Supermarket
    710 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and four 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, six of them 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.