188th Street & Cambridge Road

The four-way crossing of 188th Street and Cambridge Road is in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 6,700 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Summit School is 1,020 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 188 St/Henley Rd, is 280 feet away for the Q17, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings.

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Bus

The nearest bus stop is 188 St/Henley Rd, 280 feet away, for the Q17.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 188 St/Henley Rd Q17
    280 feet
    Q17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound at 188th Street, 1,240 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 187-41 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.7 miles

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

In 2025, 6,700 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 118th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2,494 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11423
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
23 and 24 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica Estates-Holliswood
Elevation
131 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1935 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cambridge Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of Cambridge Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10:30AM-NOON

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Dental Auxiliary Training Center Trade or language school
    420 feet
  2. Summit School
    1,020 feet

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

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