Jamaica Estates, Queens

Midland Parkway, a partially four-lane boulevard with a wide, landscaped median strip whose renovation was completed in 2007, is the area's main artery.

Most houses are single-family detached homes in the Tudor, Craftsman, Cape Cod, or Mediterranean styles.

[7] The Jamaica Estates Association, founded in 1929, continues as an active, vital civic organization representing the community.

[8] The New York City Department of Education operates public schools: Private schools include: The New York City Subway's IND Queens Boulevard Line serves the neighborhood at the line's Jamaica–179th Street terminal station (E, ​F, and trains), as well as the penultimate 169th Street local station (F and train).

Numerous express buses (QM1, QM5, QM6, QM7, QM8, QM31, QM35, QM36, X68) to Manhattan also stop on Union Turnpike and Hillside Avenue.