147th Street & Barclay Avenue
The four-way crossing of 147th Street and Barclay Avenue is in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Flushing International High School is 350 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 41 Av/147 St, is 420 feet away for the Q15, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is 41 Av/147 St, 420 feet away, for the Q15.
- 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
- 41 Av/147 St Q15420 feetQ15
Next buses at this stop
- Q15 …
Cycling
- 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound at Booth Memorial Avenue & College Point Boulevard, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.
- 147-10 Northern Boulevard Gas station0.4 miles
- 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers1,200 feet
- 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars0.9 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 2021 and 2025, police reported nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.
- 5 people injured
- 0 people killed
- 3 of those hurt, on foot
- 1 of those hurt, on a bike
The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2024.
What the city has done here
- Safety Improvement Project, 2021
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11355
- Community board
- Queens Community Board 7
- City Council district
- 20
- Police precinct
- 109
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing
- Elevation
- 80 feet above sea level
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is one-way
Homes
About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1952 and 1980.
Trees
NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the tuliptree.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 41 signs on these blocks
- 8 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.
East side of 147th Street
- No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
West side of 147th Street
- No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
- No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
North side of Barclay Avenue
- No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
- No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
South side of Barclay Avenue
- No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
- No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
- No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
Schools and places within a walk
How places are listedFourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 9 religious buildings
- 3 schools
- 2 day care or pre-K sites
Schools and child care
- Flushing International High School350 feet
- J.H.S. 189 Daniel Carter Beard School350 feet
- Little Light Pre-K Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K580 feet
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- Joy Learning Garden Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K1,140 feet
- Shield Institute of Flushing School1,290 feet
Houses of worship
- Russian Orthodox Church House of worship1,090 feet
Supermarkets
- GW Supermarket Supermarket0.4 miles
- H Mart Supermarket0.5 miles
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and three food stores.
Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.
Nearby corners
The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:
- 41st Avenue & 147th Street 330 feet
- 147th Street & Sanford Avenue 330 feet
- 149th Street & Barclay Avenue 650 feet
- 147th Street & Ash Avenue 680 feet
- Roosevelt Avenue & 147th Street 750 feet
- 147th Street & Beech Avenue 960 feet
- Barclay Avenue & 149th Place 970 feet
- 41st Avenue & 149th Street 970 feet
See every intersection along 147th Street or Barclay Avenue.