85th Avenue & 116th Street

The four-way crossing of 85th Avenue and 116th Street is in Richmond Hill, Queens, and is also named Jacob Riis Triangle by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Resurrection Church Kew Gardens is 640 feet away. The nearest subway, 121 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
121 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
790 feet
Lefferts Blvd/85 Av · Q80
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 2 listed historic places and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
85th Avenue & 116th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 121 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 121 St J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. 111 St J
    0.5 miles
    J

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lefferts Blvd/85 Av, 790 feet away, for the Q80.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lefferts Blvd/85 Av Q80
    790 feet
    Q80

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q80 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 85-10 126th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 101-09 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11418
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
29
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Richmond Hill
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jacob Riis Triangle, a co-naming enacted on June 7, 1990 (Local Law 24 of 1990).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 900 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 1959.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jacob Riis Triangle.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2020 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 116th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10AM-11:30AM

West side of 116th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10AM-11:30AM

North side of 85th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10AM-11:30AM

South side of 85th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10AM-11:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 1 library
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Shaar Hatorah High School
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jacob Riis Triangle
    50 feet
  2. Forest Park
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Richmond Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    560 feet
  2. Rko Keith's Theatre Listed historic place
    790 feet
  3. Richmond Hill Library
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Resurrection Church Kew Gardens Listed historic place
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

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 signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 116th Street or 85th Avenue.

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