Bleecker Street & Fairview Avenue

Bleecker Street and Fairview Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Grover Cleveland Playground is 1,080 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1915 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
1,140 feet
Gates Av/Fairview Av · B13
Within a walk
7 places
4 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bleecker Street & Fairview Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Forest Av M
    0.4 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 Gates Av/Fairview Av, 1,140 feet away, for the B13.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Fairview Av B13
    1,140 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fairview Ave & Linden St 19 docks in all
    690 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 60-04 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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
106 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2021 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bleecker Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Bleecker Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Fairview Avenue

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

West side of Fairview Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Wbees Forest House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    730 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grover Cleveland Playground
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Grove-Linden-St. John's Historic District Listed historic place
    850 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and nine 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 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bleecker Street or Fairview 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.