South Jamaica, Queens
South Jamaica is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
South Jamaica is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located south of downtown Jamaica. Although a proper border has not been established, the neighborhood is a subsection of greater Jamaica bounded by the Long Island Rail Road Main Line tracks, Jamaica Avenue, or Liberty Avenue to the north; the Van Wyck Expressway on the west; Rockaway Boulevard on the south; and Merrick Boulevard on the east, adjoining the neighboring community of St. Albans. Other primary thoroughfares of South Jamaica include Baisley, Foch, Linden, Guy R. Brewer, and Sutphin Boulevards. The 180th Street Business Improvement District is responsible for the development of the area.
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Getting to South Jamaica, Queens
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 5 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 13 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 32 km
- Philadelphia → South Jamaica, Queens142 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · $14–19
- Hartford → South Jamaica, Queens151 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · $14–20
- Providence/Warwick → South Jamaica, Queens228 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · $22–30
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No local-transport research exists yet for South Jamaica, Queens
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for South Jamaica, Queens. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inNYC Ferry runs a ferry from the Financial District in Manhattan via Southwest Brooklyn in Brooklyn.
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Next door to South Jamaica, Queens
South Jamaica, Queens is 4 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.