139th Street & 85th Drive

The three-way junction of 139th Street and 85th Drive is in Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Briarwood Library is 960 feet away. The nearest subway, Briarwood, is about four minutes on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 13 places to eat. About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1951 and 1960, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Briarwood
1,040 feet · 4 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
720 feet
Queens Blvd/Main St · Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 +1
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 library and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
139th Street & 85th Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Briarwood, 1,040 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Briarwood E, F
    1,040 feet
    E F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Sutphin Blvd F
    0.5 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/Main St, 720 feet away, for the Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 and QM68.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/Main St Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 +1
    720 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS Q60 T300 QM68

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …
  3. Q60 …
  4. T300 …
  5. QM68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 28 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway southbound at Main Street & Queens Boulevard, 980 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 138-98 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three 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 four crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11435
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica Hills-Briarwood
Elevation
102 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 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 1951 and 1960.

Trees

Fifteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2019 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 139th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 139th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM

South side of 85th Drive

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Manton Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 406168.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Ira's Briarwood Day Care & Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet
  2. Renanim Manhattan Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hoover - Manton Playgrounds Park
    970 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Briarwood Library
    960 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    770 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 139th Street, 85th Drive or Manton Street.

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