Elton Street & Ridgewood Avenue

Elton Street and Ridgewood Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Highland Park is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, Cleveland St, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and four places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cleveland St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Ridgewood Av/Cleveland St · T430, T434
Within a walk
9 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Elton Street & Ridgewood Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cleveland St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cleveland St J
    0.3 miles
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Las Flores” (2007) by Amy Cheng at the Cleveland St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ridgewood Av/Cleveland St, 300 feet away, for the T430 and T434.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ridgewood Av/Cleveland St T430, T434
    300 feet
    T430 T434

Next buses at this stop

  1. T430 …
  2. T434 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Jamaica Ave & Elton St 18 docks in all
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 596 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
45 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Elton Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Elton Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Romanesque Revival, and built in 1895.

  1. Public School 108 Designated landmark
    600 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Highland Park.

  1. Dawn of Glory Statue by Pietro Montana, 1924
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 108 Sal Abbracciamento School
    900 feet
  2. New Age Family Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,060 feet
  3. Saint Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lower Highland Playground
    420 feet
  2. Highland Park
    440 feet
  3. Highland Park Community Garden
    740 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. North Brooklyn YMCA Recreation center
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Elton Street or Ridgewood Avenue.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.