Jamaica Avenue & Hollis Court Boulevard

Jamaica Avenue and Hollis Court Boulevard meet at a three-way junction in Queens Village, Queens. The corner is also named Reverend Laura G. Lowery Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Queens Village Post Office is 660 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Jamaica Av/Hollis Court Blvd, is 70 feet away for the Q110, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

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Jamaica Avenue & Hollis Court Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/Hollis Court Blvd, 70 feet away, for the Q110.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/Hollis Court Blvd Q110
    70 feet
    Q110

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q110 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Clearview Expressway at Clearview Expressway & Hillside Avenue at 212th Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 213-10 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    1,250 feet
  2. 221-18 Manor Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1.5 miles
  3. 134-40 Springfield Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2024

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
70 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Reverend Laura G. Lowery Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 21 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Reverend Laura G. Lowery Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

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

East side of Hollis Court Boulevard

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Hollis Court Boulevard

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 403447 and 405173.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Tiny Step Learners Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    880 feet
  2. Helping Hand Academy I School
    930 feet
  3. Amazing Grace Cna Training & Staffin Trade or language school
    930 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Litchhult Square
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Masjid Ar Rahman Mosque Queens Village House of worship
    640 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Queens Village Post Office
    660 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and nine 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

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