86th Avenue & 143rd Street

The three-way junction of 86th Avenue and 143rd Street 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 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutphin Blvd, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutphin Blvd
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Queens Blvd/87 Av · Q20, Q60
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
86th Avenue & 143rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutphin Blvd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutphin Blvd F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
1 line
  1. F …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Briarwood E, F
    0.4 miles
    E F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/87 Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Q20 and Q60.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/87 Av Q20, Q60
    0.3 miles
    Q20 Q60

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q60 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway southbound at Main Street & Queens Boulevard, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 138-50 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street 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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

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
111 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and June 2016, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 143rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 86th Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 86th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Ira's Briarwood Day Care & Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    530 feet
  2. Sco Family of Services/T Paplin Sch School
    680 feet
  3. P.S. 117 J. Keld / Briarwood School
    830 feet
Show all 4
  1. J.H.S. 217 Robert A. van WYCK School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Briarwood Playground
    1,080 feet

Health care

  1. Silvercrest Nursing home or hospice
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Briarwood House of worship
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 143rd Street or 86th Avenue.

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