Roosevelt Avenue & 149th Street

Roosevelt Avenue and 149th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens. The corner is also named First United Methodist Church Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. First United Methodist Church Flushing is 280 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 41 Av/149 Pl, is 890 feet away for the Q15, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, six of them religious buildings, and 45 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Whitestone Expressway
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
890 feet
41 Av/149 Pl · Q15
Within a walk
9 places
6 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Roosevelt Avenue & 149th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 41 Av/149 Pl, 890 feet away, for the Q15.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 41 Av/149 Pl Q15
    890 feet
    Q15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

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
76 feet above sea level

This corner is also named First United Methodist Church Way, a co-naming enacted on March 7, 2012 (Local Law 14 of 2012).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1980.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on First United Methodist Church Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 149th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of 149th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Roosevelt Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Roosevelt Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 451191.

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

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Shield Institute of Flushing School
    1,190 feet
  2. Joy Learning Garden Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Conrad Voelcker House Listed historic place
    720 feet

Houses of worship

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

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 45 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 149th Street or Roosevelt Avenue.

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