168th Street & 84th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 168th Street and 84th Avenue 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. Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School is 450 feet away, and Queens Collegiate: a College Board School is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, 169 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, six of them schools.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
169 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
164 St/84 Av · Q65
Within a walk
8 places
6 schools, 1 playground and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
168th Street & 84th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 169 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. 169 St F
    0.4 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 164 St/84 Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Q65.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 164 St/84 Av Q65 · Shelter
    0.3 miles
    Q65
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q65 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 165-01 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.9 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 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.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11432
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica Hills-Briarwood
Elevation
130 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1935 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 46 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2014 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 168th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 168th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 84th Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 84th Avenue

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

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Georgian Revival, and built between 1925 and 1927.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School
    450 feet
  2. High School for Community Leadership School
    730 feet
  3. Hillside Arts & Letters Academy School
    730 feet
Show all 6
  1. Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences School · landmark
    730 feet
  2. Queens Collegiate: a College Board School
    730 feet
  3. P.S. 131 Abigail Adams School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Joseph Austin Playground
    530 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mannan Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 168th Street or 84th Avenue.

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