147th Street & 76th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 147th Street and 76th Avenue is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Freedom Square Playground is 730 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/76 Av, is 660 feet away for the Q20, and 13 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, ten of them religious buildings. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1951, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
660 feet
Main St/76 Av · Q20
Within a walk
21 places
10 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
147th Street & 76th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/76 Av, 660 feet away, for the Q20.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 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, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-31 Main Street Gas station
    0.4 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

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 July 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
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 1950 and 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 147th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 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 76th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of 76th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 434034 and 447073.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Rabbinical Seminary of America School
    250 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    870 feet
  3. Congregation Ahavas Yisroel of Kew Gardens Hills Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
Show all 7
  1. Shevach High School
    920 feet
  2. Touro University - Kew Gardens College
    960 feet
  3. Yeshivat Bnei Torah School
    960 feet
  4. Gan Devora Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freedom Square Playground
    730 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel Queens Valley House of worship
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Post Office
    660 feet
  2. Older adult center at 141-55 77th Avenue Older adult center
    1,080 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    670 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    680 feet
  3. Capital One Bank branch
    850 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 four 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 147th Street or 76th 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.