147th Street & Sanford Avenue

The four-way crossing of 147th Street and Sanford Avenue is in East Flushing, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. J.H.S. 189 Daniel Carter Beard is 420 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Sanford Av/147 St, is 100 feet away for the Q65, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, ten of them religious buildings. About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1952 and 1988, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
5 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Sanford Av/147 St · Q65
Within a walk
16 places
10 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
147th Street & Sanford Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sanford Av/147 St, 100 feet away, for the Q65.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sanford Av/147 St Q65 · Shelter
    100 feet
    Q65
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Sanford Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound at Booth Memorial Avenue & College Point Boulevard, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 147-10 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016

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)
East Flushing
Elevation
89 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 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 1988.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the tuliptree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2021 and December 2025, 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 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Sanford Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Sanford Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. Little Light Pre-K Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    250 feet
  2. Flushing International High School
    420 feet
  3. J.H.S. 189 Daniel Carter Beard School
    420 feet
Show all 5
  1. Joy Learning Garden Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    810 feet
  2. The Little Learning Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    760 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YWCA Flushing Recreation center
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

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:

See every intersection along 147th Street or Sanford Avenue.

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