Cypress Avenue & George Street

Cypress Avenue and George Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Queens International Secondary School is 510 feet away, and Clemens Triangle is 1,170 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them schools, and 31 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
860 feet · 3 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Cypress Av/George St · B111
Within a walk
8 places
4 schools, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cypress Avenue & George Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 860 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St L
    860 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
    0.5 miles
    L M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cypress Av/George St, 30 feet away, for the B111.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B111 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

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
65 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cypress Avenue

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

West side of Cypress Avenue

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

North side of George Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of George Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Clemens Triangle
    1,170 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,190 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,190 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    990 feet
  2. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 places to eat and 16 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 Cypress Avenue or George Street.

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.