Jamaica Avenue & 193rd Street

Jamaica Avenue and 193rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Hollis, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 1,201 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Helping Hand Academy II is 980 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Jamaica Av/193 St, is 70 feet away for the Q110, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Grand Central Parkway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Jamaica Av/193 St · Q110
Within a walk
15 places
9 religious buildings, 3 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & 193rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/193 St, 70 feet away, for the Q110.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/193 St Q110
    70 feet
    Q110

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q110 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound at 188th Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 184-45 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  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
    2.7 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,201 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 666th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 508 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11423
Community board
Queens Community Board 12
City Council district
23 and 27 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
103
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hollis
Elevation
56 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1939 and 1956.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 193rd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 193rd Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Jamaica Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Jamaica Avenue

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Committee for Early Childhood Development Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    50 feet
  2. P.S. 035 Nathaniel Woodhull School
    630 feet
  3. Wellspring UPK School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    780 feet
Show all 5
  1. Wellspring Schools School
    820 feet
  2. Helping Hand Academy II School
    980 feet

Health care

  1. Holliswood Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare Nursing home or hospice
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    510 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 193rd Street or Jamaica Avenue.

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