Roosevelt Avenue & 147th Street

Roosevelt Avenue and 147th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Shield Institute of Flushing is 540 feet away, and J.H.S. 189 Daniel Carter Beard is 1,100 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 41 Av/147 St, is 520 feet away for the Q15, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 28 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Whitestone Expressway
1.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
41 Av/147 St · Q15
Within a walk
11 places
7 religious buildings, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Roosevelt Avenue & 147th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 41 Av/147 St, 520 feet away, for the Q15.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 41 Av/147 St Q15 · Shelter
    520 feet
    Q15
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 147-10 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    1,170 feet
  2. 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
74 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,000 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 1955 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the goldenrain tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 47 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

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

East side of 147th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of 147th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Roosevelt Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 6AM-6:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-7PM

South side of Roosevelt Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Shield Institute of Flushing School
    540 feet
  2. Flushing International High School
    1,100 feet
  3. J.H.S. 189 Daniel Carter Beard School
    1,100 feet

Health care

  1. Long Island Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    850 feet

Houses of worship

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

Supermarkets

  1. GW Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Hanyang Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 places to eat and five 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:

See every intersection along 147th Street or Roosevelt Avenue.

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