Cypress Avenue & Linden Street

Cypress Avenue and Linden Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner is also named Nancy Muniz Street by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 81q Jean Paul Richter is 740 feet away, and Wyckoff Community Center is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, Seneca Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 49 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Seneca Av
1,010 feet · 4 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
Gates Av/Cypress Av · B13
Within a walk
13 places
5 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cypress Avenue & Linden Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Seneca Av, 1,010 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seneca Av M
    1,010 feet
    M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.3 miles
    L M

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gates Av/Cypress Av, 280 feet away, for the B13.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Cypress Av B13
    280 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cypress Ave & Palmetto St 25 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1517 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  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
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

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
77 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Nancy Muniz Street, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Nancy Muniz Street.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and May 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cypress Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Cypress Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Cypress Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Cypress Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Linden Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Linden Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 81q Jean Paul Richter School
    740 feet
  2. St Brigid Catholic Academy School
    770 feet
  3. New Life Child Development Center 3 Pre-K
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. New Life Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  2. New Life Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cypress Avenue East Historic District Listed historic place
    770 feet
  2. Cypress Avenue West Historic District Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Brigids RC Church House of worship
    710 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Wyckoff Community Center
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    870 feet
  2. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 49 places to eat and 23 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cypress Avenue or Linden Street.

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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.