Hillside Avenue & 121st Street

Hillside Avenue and 121st Street meet at a three-way junction in Kew Gardens, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 383 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Resurrection Church Kew Gardens is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, 121 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
121 St
510 feet · 2 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Jamaica Av/121 St · J90, T340
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 library and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & 121st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 121 St, 510 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 121 St J, Z
    510 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/121 St, 630 feet away, for the J90 and T340.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/121 St J90, T340 · Shelter
    630 feet
    J90 T340
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. J90 …
  2. T340 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound at 138th Street & Van Wyck Expressway, 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

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 August 2020.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 383 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,338th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 238 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
64 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and 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 August 2020 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 121st Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of 121st Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY NOON-1:30PM

North side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 7AM-7:30AM

South side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 5 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
    470 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
    820 feet
  2. Rko Keith's Theatre Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Resurrection Church Kew Gardens Listed historic place
    970 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Richmond Hill Post Office
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 121st Street or Hillside Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.