85th Road & 84th Drive

The three-way junction of 85th Road and 84th Drive is in Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Young Israel of Briarwood is 870 feet away. The nearest subway, Briarwood, is about four minutes on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat. About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1951 and 1961, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Briarwood
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
820 feet
Queens Blvd/Main St · Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 +1
Within a walk
6 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
85th Road & 84th Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Briarwood, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Briarwood E, F
    1,140 feet
    E F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/Main St, 820 feet away, for the Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 and QM68.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/Main St Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 +1
    820 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS Q60 T300 QM68

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …
  3. Q60 …
  4. T300 …
  5. QM68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway southbound at Main Street & Queens Boulevard, 1,080 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 138-98 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 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.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11435
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica Hills-Briarwood
Elevation
122 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 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 1951 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2025 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of 84th Drive

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 85th Road

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 85th Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Renanim Manhattan Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    250 feet
  2. P.S. 117 J. Keld / Briarwood School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hoover - Manton Playgrounds Park
    1,070 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Briarwood Library
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Briarwood House of worship
    870 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and nine food stores.

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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 84th Drive or 85th Road.

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