37th Avenue & 86th Street

The four-way crossing of 37th Avenue and 86th Street is in Jackson Heights, Queens, and is also named Danny Jared Mendoza Amador Street by local law. It lies inside the Jackson Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. First Church of Christ, Scientist stands 820 feet away. The nearest subway, 82 St-Jackson Hts, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings, and 65 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
82 St-Jackson Hts
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
35 Av/86 St · Q49
Within a walk
5 places
3 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
37th Avenue & 86th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    0.3 miles
    7

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

Also within a walk

  1. 90 St-Elmhurst Av 7
    0.3 miles
    7

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 35 Av/86 St, 780 feet away, for the Q49.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 35 Av/86 St Q49
    780 feet
    Q49

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 52 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 86 St & 37 Ave 22 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 35th Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 72-02 Roosevelt Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11372
Community board
Queens Community Board 3
City Council district
21 and 25 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
115
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jackson Heights
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Danny Jared Mendoza Amador Street, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,300 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 1926 and 1953.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the littleleaf linden and the silver linden.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Danny Jared Mendoza Amador Street.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 43 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and November 2023; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 37th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 37th Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of 86th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 86th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 402883, 403810, 405259 and 463247.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Jackson Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 221 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Anglo-American Garden Home, and mostly built between 1924 and 1927.

  1. Young Israel of Jackson Heights Designated landmark
    200 feet
  2. First Church of Christ, Scientist Designated landmark
    820 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. Q222 - Fire Fighter Christopher A. Santora School Pre-K
    270 feet
  2. Renaissance Charter School
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,100 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    190 feet
  2. Trade Fair Supermarket
    870 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 65 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 37th Avenue or 86th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.