23rd Avenue & 147th Street

The three-way junction of 23rd Avenue and 147th Street is in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Flushing Fields is 1,250 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Willets Point Blvd/149 St, is 1,170 feet away for the Q61 and QM20, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and two places to eat.

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23rd Avenue & 147th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Willets Point Blvd/149 St, 1,170 feet away, for the Q61 and QM20.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Willets Point Blvd/149 St Q61, QM20
    1,170 feet
    Q61 QM20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q61 …
  2. QM20 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound at Whitestone Expressway & I 678, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 20-02 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 12-30 Clintonville Street Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11357
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
19
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing
Elevation
56 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1935 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 field
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Flushing Fields Field
    1,250 feet
  2. Leonardo Ingravallo Playground
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Hua Lian Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

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