Cypress Avenue & Cornelia Street

Cypress Avenue and Cornelia Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner is also named Carl Clemens Triangle by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Clemens Triangle is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs, is about five minutes on foot, for the L and M. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 60 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · L, M
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Myrtle Av/Cypress Av · Q55
Within a walk
15 places
4 religious buildings, 3 listed historic places and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cypress Avenue & Cornelia Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.3 miles
    L M

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …
Inbound
1 line
  1. M …
Middle Village
1 line
  1. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Seneca Av M
    0.3 miles
    M
  2. Halsey St L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “From Earth to Sky” (2006) by Cadence Giersbach at the Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Myrtle Av/Cypress Av, 290 feet away, for the Q55.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Myrtle Av/Cypress Av Q55
    290 feet
    Q55

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q55 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Cornelia Street.

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Madison St & Cypress Ave 17 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 960 Cypress Avenue Gas station
    830 feet
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
68 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Carl Clemens Triangle, a co-naming enacted on January 25, 1985 (Local Law 9 of 1985).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is 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 1920 and 1931.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 90 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Carl Clemens Triangle.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 5 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and May 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Cypress Avenue (west side).

North side of Cornelia Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cornelia Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Cypress Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 401522, 455994, 457797, 460759 and 460760.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 25 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1911 and 1913.

  1. Ridgewood Theater Designated landmark
    460 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Myrtle Avenue Clemens Triangle.

  1. Ridgewood Memorial Column by Anton Schaaf, 1920
    230 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 pedestrian plaza

Schools and child care

  1. Robert E. Peary School
    700 feet
  2. P.S. 239 School
    720 feet
  3. Love and Care Health Career Center Trade or language school
    950 feet
Show all 5
  1. New York Career and Business School, Trade or language school
    950 feet
  2. Ultissima Beauty Inst-Ridgewood Trade or language school
    950 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Clemens Triangle
    40 feet
  2. Myrtle Avenue Clemens Triangle
    240 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Venditti Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,070 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cornelia-Putnam Historic District Listed historic place
    540 feet
  2. Cypress Avenue East Historic District Listed historic place
    920 feet
  3. Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Matthias RC Church Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 60 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cornelia Street or Cypress Avenue.

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