Jamaica Avenue & 109th Street

Jamaica Avenue and 109th Street meet at a three-way junction in Richmond Hill, Queens. The corner is also named Sheikh Hamoud Saeidi Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 090 Horace Mann is 530 feet away. The nearest subway, 111 St, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
111 St
630 feet · 2 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Jamaica Av/108 St · Q56
Within a walk
5 places
3 religious buildings and 2 schools, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & 109th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 111 St, 630 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 111 St J
    630 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. 104 St J, Z
    1,300 feet
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Five Points of Observation” (1990) by Kathleen McCarthy at the 111 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/108 St, 330 feet away, for the Q56.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/108 St Q56
    330 feet
    Q56

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 110-18 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Charging for electric cars, seven fast chargers
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2019

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
55 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sheikh Hamoud Saeidi Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2024 (Local Law 41 of 2024).

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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the cherry plum.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sheikh Hamoud Saeidi Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of 109th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 109th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

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

South side of Jamaica Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 9AM-9:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 456057 and 457790.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Italianate, and built in 1870.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 090 Horace Mann School
    530 feet
  2. Holy Child Jesus Catholic Academy School
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    80 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 109th Street or Jamaica Avenue.

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