116th Street & Mayfair Road

The three-way junction of 116th Street and Mayfair Road is in Kew Gardens, Queens, and is also named Jan Fenster Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The Overlook in Forest Park is 1,270 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Metropolitan Av/Park LN South, is 780 feet away for the Q54, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
Metropolitan Av/Park LN South · Q54
Within a walk
9 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
116th Street & Mayfair Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metropolitan Av/Park LN South, 780 feet away, for the Q54.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metropolitan Av/Park LN South Q54
    780 feet
    Q54

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 85-10 126th Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 101-09 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11418
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
29
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens
Elevation
120 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jan Fenster Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,500 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 1931 and 1970.

Since 2014 at least 52 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jan Fenster Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 116th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10AM-11:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Mayfair Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10AM-11:30AM

South side of Mayfair Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10AM-11:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Tudor, and built in 1927.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature

Schools and child care

  1. Sholom Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  2. Sholom Sholom Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,080 feet
  3. Yeshiva Tifereth Moshe School
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. Shaar Hatorah High School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Forest Park
    540 feet
  2. The Overlook in Forest Park Park feature
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ralph Bunche House Listed historic place
    360 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    660 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 116th Street or Mayfair Road.

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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.