147th Street & 75th Road

The four-way crossing of 147th Street and 75th Road is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kew Gardens Hills Post Office is 570 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/76 Av, is 770 feet away for the Q20, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
770 feet
Main St/76 Av · Q20
Within a walk
19 places
10 religious buildings, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/76 Av, 770 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/76 Av Q20 · Shelter
    770 feet
    Q20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

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, 0.6 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
    1.5 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 four crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

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
69 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 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

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 Road

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

South side of 75th Road

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Rabbinical Seminary of America School
    510 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet
  3. Congregation Ahavas Yisroel of Kew Gardens Hills Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    620 feet
Show all 6
  1. Shevach High School
    660 feet
  2. Yeshivat Bnei Torah School
    710 feet
  3. Touro University - Kew Gardens College
    850 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freedom Square Playground
    640 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel Queens Valley House of worship
    1,290 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Post Office
    570 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    580 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    830 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two 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 nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 147th Street or 75th Road.

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.