For sale – and often taken by the lender – is the sign of tough times in Jamaica, near 118th Ave. and Sutphin Blvd., and throughout the borough, as map of 2007 foreclosures indicates.

The 11434 zip code of Jamaica, Queens, has the highest number of foreclosures in the city. But a walk through its bustling commercial strips shows that even in one of the city’s more financially ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in South Jamaica, Queens, where the Daily News last year found one of the highest concentrations of foreclosures in the city.

The idea is to build on the 3,000 units of housing, 500,000 square feet of retail and 800 hotel rooms that are already slated to come online in Jamaica in the next five years.