Willets Point Boulevard & 144th Place

Willets Point Boulevard and 144th Place meet at a three-way junction in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Lowell School is 710 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Willets Point Blvd/Parsons Blvd, is 350 feet away for the Q61 and QM20, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

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Willets Point Boulevard & 144th Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Willets Point Blvd/Parsons Blvd, 350 feet away, for the Q61 and QM20.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Willets Point Blvd/Parsons Blvd Q61, QM20
    350 feet
    Q61 QM20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q61 …
  2. QM20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Willets Point Boulevard.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound at Whitestone Expressway & I 678, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 20-02 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11357
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
19
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 1955 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Willets Point Boulevard

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Life-Skills Home Training Tutorial Program for Pre-Schoolers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    520 feet
  2. Lowell School
    710 feet
  3. Life Skills Preschool
    710 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Hua Lian Supermarket Supermarket
    300 feet
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and one food store.

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

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