143rd Street & 85th Drive

The four-way crossing of 143rd Street and 85th Drive is in Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. J.H.S. 217 Robert A. van WYCK is 890 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutphin Blvd, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them religious buildings. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1959, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
2 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutphin Blvd
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Queens Blvd/Main St · Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 +1
Within a walk
11 places
5 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
143rd Street & 85th Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutphin Blvd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutphin Blvd F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
1 line
  1. F …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Briarwood E, F
    0.4 miles
    E F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/Main St, 0.3 miles away, for the Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 and QM68.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/Main St Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 +1
    0.3 miles
    Q20 Q44 SBS Q60 T300 QM68

Next buses at this stop

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

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. 138-50 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.8 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 seven crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

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
136 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,600 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 1940 and 1959.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 56 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2022 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 143rd Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 143rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 85th Drive

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 85th Drive

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Ira's Briarwood Day Care & Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    290 feet
  2. Sco Family of Services/T Paplin Sch School
    570 feet
  3. P.S. 117 J. Keld / Briarwood School
    590 feet
Show all 4
  1. J.H.S. 217 Robert A. van WYCK School
    890 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Briarwood Playground
    830 feet

Health care

  1. Silvercrest Nursing home or hospice
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Briarwood House of worship
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 143rd Street or 85th Drive.

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