147th Street & 71st Avenue

The four-way crossing of 147th Street and 71st Avenue is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun is 860 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/72 Av, is 1,040 feet away for the Q20, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,040 feet
Main St/72 Av · Q20
Within a walk
16 places
7 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
147th Street & 71st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/72 Av, 1,040 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/72 Av Q20
    1,040 feet
    Q20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway westbound at Grand Central Parkway & Union Turnpike, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-31 Main Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1.7 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 November 2023.

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
66 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 1945 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and July 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 147th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON

West side of 147th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

North side of 71st Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 71st Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Positive Beginnings Preschool
    650 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  3. Yeshiva of Central Queens School
    750 feet
Show all 7
  1. Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun School
    860 feet
  2. P.S. 165 Edith K. Bergtraum School
    880 feet
  3. Judi`s Nursery Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  4. All My Stars Day-care. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vleigh Playground
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Library
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Seasons Express Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and three 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 of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 147th Street or 71st 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.