86th Avenue & 109th Street

The four-way crossing of 86th Avenue and 109th Street is in Richmond Hill, Queens, and is also named Nancy Cataldi Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Holy Child Jesus Church is 700 feet away, and Buddy Monument in Forest Park is 1,270 feet away. The nearest subway, 111 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the J. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
111 St
1,170 feet · 4 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
111 St/86 Av · Q37
Within a walk
11 places
5 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
86th Avenue & 109th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 111 St, 1,170 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 111 St J
    1,170 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. 104 St J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Five Points of Observation” (1990) by Kathleen McCarthy at the 111 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 111 St/86 Av, 520 feet away, for the Q37.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 111 St/86 Av Q37
    520 feet
    Q37

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 110-18 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Charging for electric cars, seven fast chargers
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

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
47 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Nancy Cataldi Way, a co-naming enacted on July 17, 2009 (Local Law 46 of 2009).

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Nancy Cataldi Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and July 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 109th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 109th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 86th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature

Schools and child care

  1. Holy Child Jesus Catholic Academy School
    640 feet
  2. P.S. 090 Horace Mann School
    660 feet
  3. St. John's English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Richmond Hill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 056 Harry Eichler School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Forest Park
    1,260 feet
  2. Buddy Monument in Forest Park Park feature
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Child Jesus Church House of worship
    700 feet
  2. St Johns Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    910 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and five 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 109th Street or 86th 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.