Hillside Avenue & 143rd Street

Hillside Avenue and 143rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 1,356 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. Forgiveness Assembly Church is 230 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutphin Blvd, is about a minute on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, four of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutphin Blvd
290 feet · 1 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
Sutphin Blvd/Hillside Av · Q1, Q43
Within a walk
6 places
4 religious buildings, 1 nursing home or hospice and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & 143rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutphin Blvd, 290 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutphin Blvd F
    290 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
1 line
  1. F …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Jamaica-Van Wyck E
    0.4 miles
    E
  2. Parsons Blvd F
    0.5 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sutphin Blvd/Hillside Av, 950 feet away, for the Q1 and Q43.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutphin Blvd/Hillside Av Q1, Q43
    950 feet
    Q1 Q43

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q1 …
  2. Q43 …

Live arrivals

Hillside Avenue carries a bus lane, 6am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm on Monday to Saturday.

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. 138-50 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    730 feet
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 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.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,356 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 102nd most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 354 more were issued.

Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11435
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
103 and 107 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica Hills-Briarwood
Elevation
67 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,000 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 1932.

Trees

Eleven trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the 'October Glory' red maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Hillside Avenue (south side).

East side of 143rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 143rd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Hillside Avenue

  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 421352.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 082 Hammond School
    880 feet

Health care

  1. Silvercrest Nursing home or hospice
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Forgiveness Assembly Church House of worship
    230 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 143rd Street or Hillside Avenue.

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