Hillside Avenue & 188th Street

Hillside Avenue and 188th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Hollis, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 33 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 1,897 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Hollis Park Manor Nursing Home is 890 feet away. The nearest subway, Jamaica-179 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
33 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Jamaica-179 St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Hillside Av/188 St · Q1, Q36, Q43, Q76 +2
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & 188th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Jamaica-179 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Jamaica-179 St F
    0.5 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/188 St, 50 feet away, for the Q1, Q36, Q43, Q76 and two more.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/188 St Q1, Q36, Q43, Q76 +2 · Shelter
    50 feet
    Q1 Q36 Q43 Q76 Q77 Q82
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q1 …
  2. Q36 …
  3. Q43 …
  4. Q76 …
  5. Q77 …
  6. Q82 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound at 188th Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 187-41 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    190 feet
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.5 miles
  3. 134-40 Springfield Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 33 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,897 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 95th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 1,027 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11423
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
23 and 24 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
103 and 107 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hollis
Elevation
78 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 1925 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 31 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2025 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 188th Street

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 188th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-9AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Hillside Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Early Sunrise Preschool and Kindergarten Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    410 feet
  2. Dental Auxiliary Training Center Trade or language school
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. Hollis Park Manor Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    890 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    130 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 188th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.