Hillside Avenue & 131st Street

Hillside Avenue and 131st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Zucker Jewish Academy of Queens is 1,020 feet away. The nearest subway, Jamaica-Van Wyck, is about five minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them schools, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Jamaica-Van Wyck
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · E
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
Metropolitan Av/Hillside Av · Q54
Within a walk
4 places
2 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & 131st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Jamaica-Van Wyck, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica-Van Wyck E
    0.3 miles
    E

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
1 line
  1. E …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. E …

Also within a walk

  1. 121 St J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z
  2. Briarwood E, F
    0.5 miles
    E F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metropolitan Av/Hillside Av, 420 feet away, for the Q54.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metropolitan Av/Hillside Av Q54
    420 feet
    Q54

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 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, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 130-14 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    510 feet
  2. 150-07 Archer Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11415
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
29
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 131st Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 131st Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Ezra Jack Keats Pre-K Center at 132-10 Jamaica Avenue Pre-K center
    910 feet
  2. Zucker Jewish Academy of Queens School
    1,020 feet
  3. P.S. 054 Hillside School
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Cenacle Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    230 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 131st Street or Hillside 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.