The
New York City Subway's
IND Queens Boulevard Line serves the neighborhood at the line's
Jamaica–179th Street terminal station (), as well as the penultimate
169th Street local station (). The neighborhood is also served by the local bus lines on Hillside Avenue, the buses serve the area along Union Turnpike, the buses on Homelawn Street and Utopia Parkway, and the bus serving the area on Hillside Avenue and 188th Street. Numerous express buses () to Manhattan also stop on Union Turnpike and Hillside Avenue. In contrast to much of Queens, most streets in Jamaica Estates do not conform to the rectangular street grid and follow topographic lines, the most notable example being Midland Parkway. Many of the named streets have etymologies originating from
Languages of the United Kingdom, such as Aberdeen, Avon, Hovenden, Barrington, Chelsea, and Chevy Chase Street. However, unlike
Forest Hills Gardens, which is a similarly wealthy Queens neighborhood with an atypical Queens street layout, the street numbering system does conform to the grid in the rest of Queens. Jamaica Estates's
house numbering system, as in the rest of Queens, uses a hyphen between the closest cross-street going west to east or north to south (which comes before the hyphen) and the actual house number (which comes after the hyphen). == Notable residents ==