190th Street & Hollis Avenue

The three-way junction of 190th Street and Hollis Avenue is in Jamaica, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Hollis Veterans Square is 720 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hollis Av/190 St, is 80 feet away for the Q3, and 11 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, six of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

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190th Street & Hollis Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hollis Av/190 St, 80 feet away, for the Q3.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hollis Av/190 St Q3
    80 feet
    Q3

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

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

  1. 184-45 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.4 miles
  3. 134-40 Springfield Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 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 November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11423
Community board
Queens Community Board 12
City Council district
27
Police precinct
103
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica
Elevation
49 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1952.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 190th Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Hollis Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Hollis Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Helping Hand Academy II School
    680 feet
  2. Cambria Heights Academy School
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hollis Veterans Square
    720 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and five 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 of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

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