Northern Boulevard & 149th Street

Northern Boulevard and 149th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 32 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. First United Methodist Church Flushing is 610 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Northern Blvd/147 St, is 510 feet away for the Q12, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
31 hurt
32 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Whitestone Expressway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
Northern Blvd/147 St · Q12
Within a walk
11 places
7 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Northern Boulevard & 149th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Northern Blvd/147 St, 510 feet away, for the Q12.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Northern Blvd/147 St Q12
    510 feet
    Q12

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 147-10 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    580 feet
  2. 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 32 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 31 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11354
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
20
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing
Elevation
85 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph

Homes

About 2,200 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 1950 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2021 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 149th Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of 149th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Northern Boulevard

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-9AM

South side of Northern Boulevard

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 433598 and 449721.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1890 and 1891.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Learning Tree Multi-Cultural School
    660 feet
  2. The Learning Tree Stem-Arts Pre-School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    710 feet
  3. Preschool ' R ' US Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Conrad Voelcker House Listed historic place
    600 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First United Methodist Church Flushing House of worship
    610 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,030 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,040 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Hanyang Supermarket Supermarket
    1,020 feet
  2. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    1,150 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 149th Street or Northern Boulevard.

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