47th Avenue & 59th Place

The three-way junction of 47th Avenue and 59th Place is in Woodside, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Big Bush Playground is 720 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Queens Blvd/58 St, is 1,100 feet away for the Q60, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and three places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1964 and 1970, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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47th Avenue & 59th Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/58 St, 1,100 feet away, for the Q60.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/58 St Q60 · Shelter
    1,100 feet
    Q60
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 61 St & Queens Blvd 27 docks in all
    1,060 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway southbound at Laurel Hill Boulevard, 1,200 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 60-11 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 7014 Garfield Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 43-10 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

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 October 2014.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11377
Community board
Queens Community Board 2
City Council district
26
Police precinct
108
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Woodside
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,900 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 1964 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and April 2016, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of 47th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of 59th Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of 59th Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Big Bush Playground
    720 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,220 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and one food store.

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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, 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.