Jamaica Avenue & 112th Street

Jamaica Avenue and 112th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Richmond Hill, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 884 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 090 Horace Mann is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, 111 St, is about a minute on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
111 St
300 feet · 1 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Jamaica Av/112 St · J90, Q56
Within a walk
12 places
8 religious buildings, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & 112th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 111 St, 300 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 111 St J
    300 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
    0.4 miles
    J Z
  2. 121 St J, Z
    0.4 miles
    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/112 St, 110 feet away, for the J90 and Q56.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/112 St J90, Q56
    110 feet
    J90 Q56

Next buses at this stop

  1. J90 …
  2. Q56 …

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 mile by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2019

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 884 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 841st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 394 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
56 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 1932.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 112th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of Jamaica Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 454313 and 457441.

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

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. St. John's English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Richmond Hill Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
  2. Holy Child Jesus Catholic Academy School
    850 feet
  3. P.S. 056 Harry Eichler School
    980 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 090 Horace Mann School
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Johns Lutheran Church House of worship
    550 feet
  2. Holy Child Jesus Church House of worship
    750 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    790 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    850 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 112th Street or Jamaica Avenue.

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