Newport Avenue & Beach 147th Street
Newport Avenue and Beach 147th Street meet at a three-way junction in Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel, Queens. The corner is also named Sylvane Circle by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. West End Temple is 260 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 147 St, is 1,180 feet away for the QM16, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 147 St, 1,180 feet away, for the QM16.
- 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Rockaway Beach Blvd/Beach 147 St QM161,180 feetQM16
Next buses at this stop
- QM16 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge at Beach Channel Drive, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.
- 115-05 Beach Channel Drive Gas station1.6 miles
- 248 Beach 116th Street Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers1.7 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 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 2023.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11694
- Community board
- Queens Community Board 14
- City Council district
- 32
- Police precinct
- 100
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel
- Elevation
- 6 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Sylvane Circle, a co-naming enacted on July 11, 1985 (Local Law 48 of 1985).
The streets
- Up to four travel lanes
Homes
About 200 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 89 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sylvane Circle.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 8 signs on these blocks
- 2 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in February 2022, and the sign on the street decides.
East side of Beach 147th Street
- No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME MAY 15 - SEPT 30
West side of Beach 147th Street
- No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME MAY 15 - SEPT 30
Parks and places within a walk
How places are listedThree public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 1 day care or pre-K site
- 1 park
- 1 religious building
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Jacob Riis Park320 feet
Houses of worship
- West End Temple Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K260 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:
- Newport Avenue & Beach 146th Street 270 feet
- Newport Avenue & Beach 148th Street 380 feet
- Newport Avenue & Beach 145th Street 520 feet
- Newport Avenue & Beach 149th Street 630 feet
- Beach 147th Street & Neponsit Avenue 650 feet
- Newport Avenue & Beach 144th Street 790 feet
- Beach 146th Street & Neponsit Avenue 910 feet
- Beach 148th Street & Neponsit Avenue 910 feet
See every intersection along Beach 147th Street or Newport Avenue.