Queens Boulevard & 84th Drive

Queens Boulevard and 84th Drive meet at a three-way junction in Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Queens. The corner is also named Jack “Giacomo” Virdone Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Briarwood Library is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Briarwood, is about two minutes on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Briarwood
410 feet · 2 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Queens Blvd/Main St · Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 +1
Within a walk
5 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 library and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Queens Boulevard & 84th Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Briarwood, 410 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Briarwood E, F
    410 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 Queens Blvd/Main St, 90 feet away, for the Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 and QM68.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/Main St Q20, Q44 SBS, Q60, T300 +1
    90 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS Q60 T300 QM68

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …
  3. Q60 …
  4. T300 …
  5. QM68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 28 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, 420 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 138-98 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    1,070 feet
  2. 80-25 126th Street Charging for electric cars, 31 Level 2 chargers and three fast chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2021
  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2021

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
98 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jack “Giacomo” Virdone Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 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 1952 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 21 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jack “Giacomo” Virdone Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 7:30am to 7pm on Queens Boulevard (west side).

North side of 84th Drive

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of 84th Drive

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

East side of Queens Boulevard

  • 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: 403143, 406170, 431358 and 433045.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Renanim Manhattan Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet
  2. Archbishop Molloy High School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hoover - Manton Playgrounds Park
    560 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Briarwood Library
    570 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    350 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 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 nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 84th Drive or Queens Boulevard.

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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.