Hillside Avenue & 169th Street

Hillside Avenue and 169th Street meet at a five-way junction in Jamaica, Queens. The corner is also named Little Bangladesh Avenue by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 44 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Rising Stars Islamic School is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, 169 St, is about a minute on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
29 hurt
44 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
169 St
80 feet · 1 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Hillside Av/169 St · Q1, Q17, Q30, Q31 +2
Within a walk
9 places
5 religious buildings, 1 garden and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & 169th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 169 St, 80 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. 169 St F
    80 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Jamaica-179 St F
    0.5 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/169 St, 40 feet away, for the Q1, Q17, Q30, Q31 and two more.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/169 St Q1, Q17, Q30, Q31 +2
    40 feet
    Q1 Q17 Q30 Q31 Q43 Q75

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q1 …
  2. Q17 …
  3. Q30 …
  4. Q31 …
  5. Q43 …
  6. Q75 …

Live arrivals

Hillside Avenue carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, 4pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 165-01 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.4 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 44 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 28 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 12 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2022
  • Turn calming, February 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11432
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24 and 27 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
103 and 107 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica
Elevation
79 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Little Bangladesh Avenue, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 19 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Little Bangladesh Avenue.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and September 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on 169th Street (west side).

East side of 169th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 6 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of 169th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Hillside Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

South side of Hillside Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Homelawn Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 428630.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Career Development Center of Queens, Trade or language school
    150 feet
  2. Rising Stars Islamic School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Serinor Community Garden - International Towers (NYCHA) Garden
    1,120 feet
  2. Major Mark Park
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    80 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    430 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    70 feet
  2. Mannan Supermarket Supermarket
    880 feet
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 169th Street, Hillside Avenue or Homelawn Street.

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