Practical
Getting here
Every way of arriving, where to leave a car, and the one thing about the station that is worth knowing before somebody sets out.
Arriving
Every way to get here
Most people who come here come from within a mile or two of it. The rest of this is for the relatives who are travelling, and for the ones who have not been to this part of Queens before.
On foot
Six minutes from the 61st Street - Woodside station, which has the elevated line and the commuter railroad in one building. There are stairs on both sides and no lift.
By bus
The Roosevelt Avenue route stops two blocks north. The 61st Street route stops at the corner.
By car
Parking for eleven cars behind the building, two of them wide bays beside the covered porch. Street parking on the side streets is free after six.
From Manhattan
About twenty-five minutes on the railroad from Penn Station, or forty on the elevated line.
From the airports
Twenty minutes from the nearer airport and about forty-five from the further one, without traffic.
If a large number of people are coming from the same place, say so when we are fixing the day. There is a limit to how many cars this street absorbs at four in the afternoon, and it is a solvable problem when it is known about in advance.
By car
The porch, and the spaces behind the building
A car can pull in under cover, so an elderly mourner does not get out into the rain. It sounds like a small thing until it is January.
The wide bays beside the porch are the ones to aim for if somebody in the party uses a wheelchair, and they are worth arriving a few minutes early for. The spaces themselves are listed above with everything else about arriving by car.
Level access from the porch to the chapel, the reposing rooms and the reception room, so nothing between the car and a seat involves a step.
Coming in
You do not have to come here at all
Here, at your kitchen table, or over a video call if the family is spread out.
The arrangement meeting is the one appointment in all of this, and it is what most people come to the building for. Usually the day after the death, in daylight, and it takes about ninety minutes. If getting here is difficult, say so when we speak: it does not have to happen in this building, and a meeting at your own table is not a lesser version of it.
More than one person, if you can. Nobody should do this alone and nobody remembers all of it.
If you would rather look at the rooms before deciding anything, come and look. Nobody will sit you down, there is nothing to sign, and you may leave again having said only that you are thinking about it.
Honestly, about the station
It is close, and it is not the easy arrival for everybody
The nearest station has stairs on both sides and no lift, so a taxi or the bus is the easier arrival.
The station is genuinely near, and for most people walking from it is the simplest way to come. But it is an elevated line and a commuter railroad in one building, the platforms are up, and there are stairs at both ends of that journey. Somebody with a stick, a pram or a bad knee will have a much better afternoon in a taxi or on the bus, both of which stop within a couple of minutes of the door.
We would rather say that here than have somebody find it out at the top of a staircase in January. What there is and what there is not, inside the building and out, is set out in full on its own page.
Where and when
The address, and the difference between the office and the telephone
Woodside Memorial
37-36 61st Str, Woodside, NY 11377
funeralhome@bestdealwebdesign.com
Between us: English, Spanish, Tagalog, Bengali, Nepali
There is no map on this page, on purpose. A map is a request to somebody else's server on a page that gets read on a telephone in a hospital corridor, and the address above is the whole of what one would have told you. Any map application will take it exactly as it is written.
| Monday to Friday | 9:00am - 5:00pm |
|---|---|
| Saturday | 10:00am - 4:00pm |
| Sunday | By arrangement |
Those are not the answering hours. Those are the hours the office is open, not the hours somebody answers. The telephone is answered at every hour of every day of the year, including the middle of the night and including holidays, because that is when most of these calls are made.
If you are coming in to see the building
Ring first if you can, so that somebody is at the door and the room you want to look at is free. The office keeps ordinary hours; the telephone does not.