147th Street & 72nd Drive

The three-way junction of 147th Street and 72nd Drive 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. The stele “Haym Salomon” is 570 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/73 Av, is 700 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
700 feet
Main St/73 Av · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
19 places
10 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
147th Street & 72nd Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/73 Av, 700 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/73 Av Q20, Q44 SBS · Shelter
    700 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 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, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-31 Main Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 112-01 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.7 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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
75 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 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2019 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 147th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON

West side of 147th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of 72nd Drive

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON

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
    570 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Ahavas Yisroel of Kew Gardens Hills Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    360 feet
  2. Yeshivat Bnei Torah School
    630 feet
  3. All My Stars Day-care. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    750 feet
Show all 6
  1. Shevach High School
    1,080 feet
  2. Rabbinical Seminary of America School
    1,290 feet
  3. Sholom, Sholom Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freedom Square Playground
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Library
    810 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Post Office
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 147th Street or 72nd Drive.

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.