Hillside Avenue & Sutphin Boulevard

Hillside Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard meet at a three-way junction in Jamaica, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 26 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Civil Court is 980 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutphin Blvd, is about a minute on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Hillside Avenue, all day.

Safety record
21 hurt
26 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutphin Blvd
70 feet · 1 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Sutphin Blvd/Hillside Av · Q1, Q43
Within a walk
17 places
10 religious buildings, 3 courthouses and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & Sutphin Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutphin Blvd, 70 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutphin Blvd F
    70 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Parsons Blvd F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport E, J, Z
    0.4 miles
    E J Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sutphin Blvd/Hillside Av, 40 feet away, for the Q1 and Q43.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q1 …
  2. Q43 …

Live arrivals

Hillside Avenue carries a bus lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 33 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, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 138-50 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 26 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 21 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11435
Community board
Queens Community Board 12
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
63 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1962.

Since 2014 at least 33 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 21 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2024 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Hillside Avenue (north side).

South side of Hillside Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Taxi stand 1 sign TAXI STAND

East side of Sutphin Boulevard

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 6AM-9AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 414152, 419788 and 419806.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Modern Classical, and built between 1936 and 1939.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Queens Supreme Court.

  1. The Wheel of Justice Sculpture by Claudia DeMonte and Ed McGowin, 2002
    550 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 courthouses
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Elite Stenotype Academy Trade or language school
    510 feet
  2. Sandra's Sunflower Child Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet
  3. P.S. 082 Hammond School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. George Eagle Carr Community Garden
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Forgiveness Assembly Church House of worship
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Surrogates Court Courthouse · landmark
    610 feet
  2. Supreme Court Civil Term Courthouse · landmark
    620 feet
  3. Civil Court Courthouse
    980 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    90 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    670 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,190 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hillside Avenue or Sutphin Boulevard.

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