143rd Street & 84th Drive

The three-way junction of 143rd Street and 84th 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. Young Israel of Briarwood is 290 feet away. The nearest subway, Briarwood, is about eight minutes on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1951 and 1970, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Briarwood
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Main St/84 Rd · Q20
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
143rd Street & 84th Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Briarwood, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Briarwood E, F
    0.4 miles
    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
    0.4 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/84 Rd, 0.3 miles away, for the Q20.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/84 Rd Q20
    0.3 miles
    Q20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway southbound at Main Street & Queens Boulevard, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 84-02 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2023

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
121 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,900 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 1970.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2022 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 143rd Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 143rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 84th Drive

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 117 J. Keld / Briarwood School
    370 feet
  2. Renanim Manhattan Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  3. Ira's Briarwood Day Care & Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
Show all 5
  1. Sholom, Sholom Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet
  2. Sco Family of Services/T Paplin Sch School
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Briarwood House of worship
    290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 143rd Street or 84th Drive.

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