143rd Street & 85th Road

The three-way junction of 143rd Street and 85th Road is in Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 117 J. Keld / Briarwood School is 330 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutphin Blvd, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1951 and 1959, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutphin Blvd, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutphin Blvd F
    0.4 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.

  • 8 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
    0.5 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 five crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 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
141 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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 1959.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2024 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 143rd Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 85th Road

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 85th Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 117 J. Keld / Briarwood School
    330 feet
  2. Ira's Briarwood Day Care & Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    540 feet
  3. Sco Family of Services/T Paplin Sch School
    820 feet
Show all 5
  1. Renanim Manhattan Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  2. J.H.S. 217 Robert A. van WYCK School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Briarwood Playground
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Briarwood House of worship
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 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 Road.

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.