Cypress Avenue & Norman Street

Cypress Avenue and Norman Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 218 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Joseph F. Quinn Intermediate School 77 is 1,010 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about three minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them schools, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
910 feet · 3 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Summerfield St/Cypress Av · B20
Within a walk
6 places
3 schools, 2 listed historic places and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cypress Avenue & Norman Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 910 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Halsey St L
    910 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Summerfield St/Cypress Av, 270 feet away, for the B20.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Summerfield St/Cypress Av B20
    270 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Summerfield St & Cypress Ave 19 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 960 Cypress Avenue Gas station
    940 feet
  2. 391 Weirfield Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.7 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 eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 218 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,595th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 144 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 9 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and December 2024, 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 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Norman Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Norman Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Joseph F. Quinn Intermediate School 77 School
    1,010 feet
  2. Queens International Secondary School
    1,010 feet
  3. P.S. 239 School
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Seneca Avenue East Historic District Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
  2. Forest-Norman Historic District Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and ten 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cypress Avenue or Norman Street.

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