47th Avenue & 60th Street
The three-way junction of 47th Avenue and 60th Street is in Woodside, Queens, and is also named Thomas J. Ashton Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Big Bush Playground is 440 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Queens Blvd/61 St, is 920 feet away for the Q60, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and four places to eat.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/61 St, 920 feet away, for the Q60.
- 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Queens Blvd/61 St Q60 · Shelter920 feetQ60
Next buses at this stop
- Q60 …
Cycling
- 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
- 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk
Nearest bike-share station
- 61 St & Queens Blvd 27 docks in all780 feet
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway southbound at Laurel Hill Boulevard, 930 feet by car along the streets.
- 60-11 Queens Boulevard Gas station0.4 miles
- 7014 Garfield Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers0.9 miles
- 43-10 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars1.2 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 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 April 2023.
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
- 37 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Thomas J. Ashton Way, a co-naming enacted on January 7, 2003 (Local Law 6 of 2003).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
Homes
About 1,700 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 1964 and 1970.
Trees
NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Thomas J. Ashton Way.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 13 signs on these blocks
- 3 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and February 2019, 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 60th Street
- No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
West side of 60th Street
- No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
Parks and places within a walk
How places are listedTwo public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 1 nursing home or hospice
- 1 playground
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Big Bush Playground440 feet
Health care
- Queens Boulevard Extended Care Facility Nursing home or hospice1,160 feet
Supermarkets
- Key Food Supermarket1,110 feet
Other stores
- Dollar Tree Store940 feet
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and three 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:
- 47th Avenue & 59th Place 280 feet
- 48th Avenue & 60th Street 500 feet
- 47th Avenue & 59th Street 540 feet
- Laurel Hill Boulevard & 60th Street 670 feet
- 48th Avenue & 59th Place 760 feet
- Queens Boulevard & 61st Street 920 feet
- Laurel Hill Boulevard & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway 940 feet
- Laurel Hill Boulevard & 59th Place 980 feet
See every intersection along 47th Avenue or 60th Street.