Euclid Avenue & Ridgewood Avenue

Euclid Avenue and Ridgewood Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Blessed Sacrament Church is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about four minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat. About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Crescent St/Ridgewood Av · B13
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Euclid Avenue & Ridgewood Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crescent St, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    1,140 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Cypress Hills J
    0.4 miles
    J
  2. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wheel of Bloom-Soak up the Sun” (2007) by Jung Hyang Kim at the Crescent St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Crescent St/Ridgewood Av, 610 feet away, for the B13.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Crescent St/Ridgewood Av B13
    610 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 35 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 794 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, January 2019
  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2021

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
47 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Not Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Euclid Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Euclid Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Blessed Sacrament Catholic Academy School
    480 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 17 School
    610 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 18 School
    610 feet
Show all 5
  1. Cypress Hills Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    680 feet
  2. Achievement First East New York Charter School 2 School
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Chestnut Street Garden
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public School 65k Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Blessed Sacrament Church House of worship
    440 feet
  2. Andrews Methodist Church Listed historic place
    780 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,010 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 19 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Euclid Avenue or Ridgewood Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.