Hillside Avenue & 125th Street

Hillside Avenue and 125th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Richmond Hill, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bais Yaakov Academy for Girls is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, 121 St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them schools, and four places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
121 St
1,120 feet · 4 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
810 feet
Jamaica Av/124 St · Q56
Within a walk
7 places
3 schools, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & 125th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 121 St, 1,120 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 121 St J, Z
    1,120 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Jamaica-Van Wyck E
    0.5 miles
    E

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/124 St, 810 feet away, for the Q56.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/124 St Q56
    810 feet
    Q56

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 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, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 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
65 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 125th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 125th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Hillside Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 054 Hillside School
    460 feet
  2. Bais Yaakov Academy for Girls School
    770 feet
  3. Tiferes Torah Institute School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Metro Triangle
    590 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Richmond Hill Post Office
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    1,120 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 125th Street or Hillside Avenue.

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