86th Avenue & 112th Street

The four-way crossing of 86th Avenue and 112th Street is in Richmond Hill, Queens, and is also named Church of the Holy Child Jesus Plaza 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 170 feet away. The nearest subway, 111 St, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
111 St
890 feet · 3 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
111 St/86 Av · Q37
Within a walk
12 places
9 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
86th Avenue & 112th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 111 St, 890 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 121 St J, Z
    0.5 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, 260 feet away, for the Q37.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 111 St/86 Av Q37 · Shelter
    260 feet
    Q37
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 0.9 miles 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
    1.3 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

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 Church of the Holy Child Jesus Plaza, a co-naming enacted on December 20, 2010 (Local Law 3 of 2011).

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the Norway maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Church of the Holy Child Jesus Plaza.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 112th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

North side of 86th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of 86th Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Holy Child Jesus Catholic Academy School
    250 feet
  2. St. John's English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Richmond Hill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    510 feet
  3. P.S. 056 Harry Eichler School
    530 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Child Jesus Church House of worship
    170 feet
  2. St Johns Lutheran Church House of worship
    510 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,220 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 12 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 of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 112th 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.