With two exquisitely designed new court facilities, Downtown Jamaica has become the center for civil judicial activities in Queens.

Queens County Family Court – 2002
151-20 Jamaica Avenue

Designed by I. M. Pei to maximize natural light, each floor provides sweeping views of the surrounding area. Soaring over the forty-foot high atrium ceiling is Ursula von Rydingsvard's sculpture “katul katul.”

Queens County Civil Court – 1997
89-17 Sutphin Boulevard

In the early 1970s, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation participated in the planning and site acquisition by Mayor John Lindsay for the Civil Court complex on Sutphin Boulevard. Designed by Perkins Eastman Architects and built of limestone, granite, and glass, the award-winning Civil Court building houses not only the civil court, but also the small claims and landlord/tenant court for Queens County.