Beach 147th Street & Neponsit Avenue

Beach 147th Street and Neponsit Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. West End Temple is 890 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 147 St, is 530 feet away for the QM16, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them parks.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 147 St · QM16
Within a walk
4 places
2 parks, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach 147th Street & Neponsit Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 147 St, 530 feet away, for the QM16.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 147 St QM16
    530 feet
    QM16

Next buses at this stop

  1. QM16 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge at Beach Channel Drive, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 115-05 Beach Channel Drive Gas station
    1.7 miles
  2. 248 Beach 116th Street Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11694
Community board
Queens Community Board 14
City Council district
32
Police precinct
100
Elevation
6 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 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 1920 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 83 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Kentucky coffeetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and April 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beach 147th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME MAY 15 - SEPT 30

South side of Neponsit Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME MAY 15 - SEPT 30

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jacob Riis Park
    640 feet
  2. Rockaway Beach Park
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. West End Temple Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    890 feet

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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach 147th Street or Neponsit Avenue.

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