147th Street & 71st Road

The four-way crossing of 147th Street and 71st Road is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Kew Gardens Hills Library is 990 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/72 Av, is 860 feet away for the Q20, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1949 and 1950, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
Main St/72 Av · Q20
Within a walk
16 places
8 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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147th Street & 71st Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/72 Av, 860 feet away, for the Q20.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-31 Main Street Gas station
    1,300 feet
  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

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2019.

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
65 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1949 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2019 and October 2023, 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 Road

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

South side of 71st Road

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Haym Solomon Memorial.

  1. Haym Salomon Stele, 1976
    790 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Positive Beginnings Preschool
    470 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet
  3. Yeshiva of Central Queens School
    1,010 feet
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  1. All My Stars Day-care. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,090 feet
  2. P.S. 165 Edith K. Bergtraum School
    1,110 feet
  3. Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vleigh Playground
    1,170 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Library
    990 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Seasons Express 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 147th Street or 71st Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.