Hillside Avenue & 120th Street

Hillside Avenue and 120th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 635 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Richmond Hill Library is 560 feet away. The nearest subway, 121 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
121 St
760 feet · 3 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Jamaica Av/Lefferts Blvd · Q56
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 library and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & 120th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 121 St, 760 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 121 St J, Z
    760 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/Lefferts Blvd, 610 feet away, for the Q56.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/Lefferts Blvd Q56
    610 feet
    Q56

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 85-10 126th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 80-25 126th Street Charging for electric cars, 31 Level 2 chargers and three fast chargers
    1.4 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 635 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,039th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 351 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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)
Kew Gardens
Elevation
63 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 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 July 2016 and November 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 120th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

West side of 120th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY NOON-1:30PM

North side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY NOON-1:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Colonial Revival, and built in 1908.

  1. Richmond Hill Republican Club Designated landmark
    260 feet

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 post office

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Richmond Hill Library
    560 feet
  2. Rko Keith's Theatre Listed historic place
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Resurrection Church Kew Gardens Listed historic place
    720 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Richmond Hill Post Office
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,220 feet
  2. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 120th Street or Hillside Avenue.

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