Bleecker Street & Butler Avenue

Bleecker Street and Butler Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The Engine 291/Ladder 140 firehouse is 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Av, is about ten minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1917 and 1955, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Av
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
Forest Av/Bleecker St · Q14, Q39
Within a walk
7 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bleecker Street & Butler Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. Forest Av M
    0.5 miles
    M

Next trains at this station

Inbound
1 line
  1. M …
Middle Village
1 line
  1. M …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Dom (Variations)” (2013) by Laura F. Gibellini at the Forest Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Bleecker St, 240 feet away, for the Q14 and Q39.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Bleecker St Q14, Q39
    240 feet
    Q14 Q39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q14 …
  2. Q39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bleecker St & Forest Ave 19 docks in all
    120 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Borden Avenue & 60th Street, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 60-04 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, one fast charger
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
30
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
115 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1917 and 1955.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the green ash and the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2021 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bleecker Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Bleecker Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Butler Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 071 Forest School
    510 feet
  2. Notre Dame Catholic Academy School
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church House of worship
    890 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 291/Ladder 140 Fire station
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    1,010 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bleecker Street or Butler Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.