Jamaica Avenue & 78th Street

Jamaica Avenue and 78th Street meet at a three-way junction in Woodhaven, Queens. The corner is also named Union Course Racetrack by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Woodhaven Post Office is 850 feet away. The nearest subway, 75 St-Elderts Ln, is about three minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
75 St-Elderts Ln
720 feet · 3 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Jamaica Av/77 St · Q56
Within a walk
3 places
2 religious buildings and 1 post office, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & 78th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 75 St-Elderts Ln, 720 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 75 St-Elderts Ln J, Z
    720 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. 85 St-Forest Pkwy J
    0.3 miles
    J
  2. Cypress Hills J
    0.4 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Five Points of Observation” (1990) by Kathleen McCarthy at the 75 St-Elderts Ln station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/77 St, 50 feet away, for the Q56.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/77 St Q56
    50 feet
    Q56

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Forest Park Drive & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 74-08 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    1,120 feet
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11421
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
32
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Woodhaven
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Union Course Racetrack, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Union Course Racetrack.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 78th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of 78th Street

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

North side of Jamaica Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Jamaica Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 448933.

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 post office

Community centers and public services

  1. Woodhaven Post Office
    850 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    880 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    770 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 78th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.