Cypress Avenue & Centre Street

Cypress Avenue and Centre Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Joseph F. Quinn Intermediate School 77 is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and 43 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Cypress Av/George St · B111
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 2 parks and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cypress Avenue & Centre Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St L
    1,080 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.4 miles
    L M
  2. Seneca Av M
    0.5 miles
    M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cypress Av/George St, 230 feet away, for the B111.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cypress Av/George St B111
    230 feet
    B111

Next buses at this stop

  1. B111 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cypress Ave & George St 19 docks in all
    230 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 960 Cypress Avenue Gas station
    200 feet
  2. 391 Weirfield Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
34
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
67 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 18 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Centre Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Centre Street

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

South side of Centre Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Centre Street

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

East side of Cypress Avenue

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

West side of Cypress Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 239 School
    440 feet
  2. Joseph F. Quinn Intermediate School 77 School
    440 feet
  3. Queens International Secondary School
    440 feet
Show all 4
  1. Robert E. Peary School
    590 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Clemens Triangle
    930 feet
  2. Myrtle Avenue Clemens Triangle
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Seneca Avenue East Historic District Listed historic place
    850 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,000 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    740 feet
  2. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 43 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Centre Street or Cypress Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.