Hamilton Place & Jay Avenue

Hamilton Place and Jay Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Maspeth, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Technical Sergeant Thomas J. Davey Triangle is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Queens Midtown Expwy/Hull Av, is 460 feet away for the Q18 and Q67, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them parks, and four places to eat.

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Hamilton Place & Jay Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Midtown Expwy/Hull Av, 460 feet away, for the Q18 and Q67.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Midtown Expwy/Hull Av Q18, Q67
    460 feet
    Q18 Q67

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q18 …
  2. Q67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 63 St & Borden Ave 21 docks in all
    820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Queens Midtown Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 59-51 Maurice Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 56-18 69th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 57-77 Rust Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11378
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
30
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Maspeth
Elevation
52 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Technical Sergeant Thomas J. Davey Triangle
    40 feet
  2. Federalist Triangle
    50 feet
  3. Whitefish Triangle
    620 feet
Show all 8
  1. Whitefish Triangle Playground
    770 feet
  2. Frank Principe Park
    820 feet
  3. Virginia Principe Playground
    970 feet
  4. Hull Triangle
    1,010 feet
  5. Hull Triangle Playground
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Transfiguration RC Church House of worship
    1,200 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 288 Fire station
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,060 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,060 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, 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.