Jamaica Avenue & 105th Street

Jamaica Avenue and 105th Street meet at a three-way junction in Richmond Hill, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Pilgrim Congregational Church is 980 feet away. The nearest subway, 104 St, is about a minute on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, five of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1915 and 1920, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
3 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
104 St
370 feet · 1 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Jamaica Av/104 St · J90, Q56, T340
Within a walk
8 places
5 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & 105th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 104 St, 370 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 104 St J, Z
    370 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. 111 St J
    0.3 miles
    J
  2. Woodhaven Blvd J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Five Points of Observation” (1990) by Kathleen McCarthy at the 104 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/104 St, 290 feet away, for the J90, Q56 and T340.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/104 St J90, Q56, T340
    290 feet
    J90 Q56 T340

Next buses at this stop

  1. J90 …
  2. Q56 …
  3. T340 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 104-09 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Charging for electric cars, seven fast chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11418
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
29
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Richmond Hill
Elevation
49 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Yoshino cherry and the scarlet oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 7pm on Jamaica Avenue (south side).

North side of Jamaica Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 460029 and 460702.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 090 Horace Mann School
    1,220 feet
  2. P.S. 273 School
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pilgrim Congregational Church House of worship
    980 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 294/Ladder 143 Fire station
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    1,010 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 105th Street or Jamaica Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.