147th Street & 77th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 147th Street and 77th Avenue 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. Young Israel Queens Valley is 710 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/77 Rd, is 680 feet away for the Q20, and 13 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, eight of them religious buildings.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Main St/77 Rd · Q20
Within a walk
15 places
8 religious buildings, 2 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
147th Street & 77th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/77 Rd, 680 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/77 Rd Q20
    680 feet
    Q20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 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. 146-15 Union Turnpike 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 two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 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
67 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1945 and 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2018 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 147th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 10:30AM-NOON

West side of 147th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON

North side of 77th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of 77th Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Rabbinical Seminary of America School
    500 feet
  2. Gan Devora Pre-K
    730 feet
  3. North Queens Community High School
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freedom Square Playground
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Queens County Savings Bank, Kew Gardens Hills Branch Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel Queens Valley House of worship
    710 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 141-55 77th Avenue Older adult center
    770 feet
  2. Kew Gardens Hills Post Office
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,090 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two 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 77th 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.