Jamaica Avenue & 217th Street

Jamaica Avenue and 217th Street meet at a three-way junction in Queens Village, Queens. The corner is also named PO Paul Heidelberger Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bethel Christian Learning Center is 460 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Amboy Ln/Jamaica Av, is 480 feet away for the Q88, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Island Parkway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
Amboy Ln/Jamaica Av · Q88
Within a walk
18 places
11 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & 217th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amboy Ln/Jamaica Av, 480 feet away, for the Q88.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amboy Ln/Jamaica Av Q88
    480 feet
    Q88

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q88 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway southbound at Hempstead Avenue & Cross Island Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 213-10 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 221-18 Manor Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 134-40 Springfield Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11428
Community board
Queens Community Board 13
City Council district
23 and 27 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
105
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queens Village
Elevation
78 feet above sea level

This corner is also named PO Paul Heidelberger Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1970.

Trees

Twenty trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on PO Paul Heidelberger Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Jamaica Avenue (south side).

East side of 217th Street

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

West side of 217th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Jamaica Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 403427, 405125, 407080 and 419347.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Queens Village Veterans Plaza.

  1. Queens Village-Bellerose Memorial Stele, 1949
    530 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bethel Christian Learning Center School
    460 feet
  2. Kidslandny Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
  3. Abd School for Nurse Aides Trade or language school
    940 feet
Show all 4
  1. A to Z Center Too Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Queens Village Veterans Plaza
    490 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Queens Village Library
    940 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Queens Reformed Church House of worship
    940 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 304/Ladder 162 Fire station
    990 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    40 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    100 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    610 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,210 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 217th 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, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.