147th Street & 75th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 147th Street and 75th Avenue is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, and is also named Morton Povman Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Shevach High School is 560 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/75 Av, is 660 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
660 feet
Main St/75 Av · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
20 places
10 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
147th Street & 75th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/75 Av, 660 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/75 Av Q20, Q44 SBS
    660 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 22 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, 0.6 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
    1.6 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 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
68 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Morton Povman Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

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 1950 and 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Morton Povman Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2019 and September 2024, 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 75th Avenue

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

South side of 75th Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

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
    440 feet
  3. Shevach High School
    560 feet
Show all 7
  1. Rabbinical Seminary of America School
    770 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    810 feet
  3. Touro University - Kew Gardens College
    1,110 feet
  4. All My Stars Day-care. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freedom Square Playground
    710 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Queens County Savings Bank, Kew Gardens Hills Branch Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Post Office
    760 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    840 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,090 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three 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 75th Avenue.

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