Main Street & Manton Street

Main Street and Manton Street meet at a four-way crossing in Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Briarwood Library is 170 feet away. The nearest subway, Briarwood, is about a minute on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and 11 places to eat. About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1953 and 1961, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
6 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Briarwood
280 feet · 1 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
Main St/Manton St · Q20, Q44 SBS, Q46
Within a walk
4 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 library and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & Manton Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Briarwood, 280 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Briarwood E, F
    280 feet
    E F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Manton St, 220 feet away, for the Q20, Q44 SBS and Q46.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Manton St Q20, Q44 SBS, Q46 · Shelter
    220 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS Q46
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …
  3. Q46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway southbound at Main Street & Queens Boulevard, 470 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 138-98 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 80-25 126th Street Charging for electric cars, 31 Level 2 chargers and three fast chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11435
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica Hills-Briarwood
Elevation
106 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,200 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 1953 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and September 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Manton Street (south side).

East side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Main Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

East side of Manton Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 449971.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Archbishop Molloy High School
    400 feet
  2. Renanim Manhattan Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hoover - Manton Playgrounds Park
    50 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Briarwood Library
    170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,030 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and ten food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Main Street or Manton Street.

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