161st Street & Jewel Avenue

The three-way junction of 161st Street and Jewel Avenue is in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, Queens, and is also named Nettie Mayersohn Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 741 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Emerald Playground is 630 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Jewel Av/161 St, is 90 feet away for the Q64, QM4 and QM44. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and three places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Jewel Av/161 St · Q64, QM4, QM44
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 library and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
161st Street & Jewel Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jewel Av/161 St, 90 feet away, for the Q64, QM4 and QM44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jewel Av/161 St Q64, QM4, QM44 · Shelter
    90 feet
    Q64 QM4 QM44
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q64 …
  2. QM4 …
  3. QM44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 73-15 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    2.3 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 741 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 951st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 291 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11365
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest
Elevation
77 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Nettie Mayersohn Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2024 (Local Law 41 of 2024).

Homes

About 1,100 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 1952 and 1954.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Nettie Mayersohn Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 48 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Jewel Avenue (south side).

East side of 161st Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Parallel parking only 5 signs PARALLEL PARKING ONLY

West side of 161st Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Parallel parking only 5 signs PARALLEL PARKING ONLY

North side of Jewel Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 444118 and 458413.

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 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./M.S. 200 - the Magnet School of Global Studies and Leadership School
    880 feet
  2. P.S./M.S. 200 - the Pomonok School & Star Academy Pre-K
    880 feet
  3. Universal Assessment and Consulting Preschool
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Emerald Playground
    630 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Pomonok Library
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 161st Street or Jewel Avenue.

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