143rd Street & 86th Road

The three-way junction of 143rd Street and 86th Road 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. P.S. 117 J. Keld / Briarwood School is 1,090 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutphin Blvd, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutphin Blvd
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,290 feet
Queens Blvd/87 Av · Q20, Q60
Within a walk
7 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
143rd Street & 86th Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutphin Blvd, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutphin Blvd F
    1,140 feet
    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/87 Av, 1,290 feet away, for the Q20 and Q60.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/87 Av Q20, Q60
    1,290 feet
    Q20 Q60

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q60 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound at 138th Street & Van Wyck Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 138-50 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 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.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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
87 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1951.

Trees

Twenty trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and September 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 143rd Street

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

North side of 86th Road

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

South side of 86th Road

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Ira's Briarwood Day Care & Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  2. Sco Family of Services/T Paplin Sch School
    940 feet
  3. P.S. 117 J. Keld / Briarwood School
    1,090 feet

Health care

  1. Silvercrest Nursing home or hospice
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Forgiveness Assembly Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 143rd Street or 86th 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.