193rd Street & 81st Avenue

The three-way junction of 193rd Street and 81st Avenue is in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, Queens, at the edge of Cunningham Park. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 1,616 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Upper Playground is 830 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Union Tpke/193 St, is 710 feet away for the Q46, Q48, QM6 and QM36, and 12 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them playgrounds, and three places to eat.

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193rd Street & 81st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Union Tpke/193 St, 710 feet away, for the Q46, Q48, QM6 and QM36.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Union Tpke/193 St Q46, Q48, QM6, QM36 · Shelter
    710 feet
    Q46 Q48 QM6 QM36
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q46 …
  2. Q48 …
  3. QM6 …
  4. QM36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound at 188th Street & Grand Central Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 176-02 Union Turnpike Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    2.2 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2018.

In 2025, 1,616 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 517th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 872 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on 193rd Street915499
Southbound on 193rd Street701373
Total1,616872

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
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica Estates-Holliswood; the corner is on the edge of the Cunningham Park area
Elevation
80 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 170 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 in 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the cherry.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cunningham Park
    40 feet
  2. Redwood Playground
    680 feet
  3. Upper Playground
    830 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them 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, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.