Northern Boulevard & Roosevelt Avenue

Northern Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. St Andrew Avellino Church is 440 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Northern Blvd/154 St, is 460 feet away for the Q12, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 52 places to eat.

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Northern Boulevard & Roosevelt Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Northern Blvd/154 St, 460 feet away, for the Q12.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Northern Blvd/154 St Q12
    460 feet
    Q12

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Clearview Expressway southbound, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 152-06 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    1,110 feet
  2. 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 27 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11354
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
19 and 20 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing
Elevation
80 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

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

East side of 156th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of 156th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-6PM

North side of Northern Boulevard

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-9AM

South side of Northern Boulevard

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 458590.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Aa Plus Beauty School Trade or language school
    590 feet
  2. SY Seit Preschool
    590 feet
  3. St Andrew Avellino Catholic Academy School
    800 feet
Show all 5
  1. KCS Education and Development Instit Trade or language school
    1,200 feet
  2. Saint Andrew Avellino School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Leonard Square
    110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. McGoldrick Library
    300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Andrew Avellino Church House of worship
    440 feet
  2. Immanuel Korean Lutheran Church House of worship
    660 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    230 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    680 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    490 feet
  2. New Age Market Supermarket
    1,140 feet
  3. Hanyang Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 52 places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

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