Forest Avenue & Gates Avenue

Forest Avenue and Gates Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner lies on the edge of the Ridgewood North Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. I.S. 093 Ridgewood is 950 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1910 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Av
1,260 feet · 5 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Forest Av/Gates Av · Q14, Q39
Within a walk
11 places
6 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Forest Avenue & Gates Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Av, 1,260 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Forest Av M
    1,260 feet
    M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Seneca Av M
    0.4 miles
    M

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Gates Av, 70 feet away, for the Q14 and Q39.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Gates Av Q14, Q39
    70 feet
    Q14 Q39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q14 …
  2. Q39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 60 Pl & Linden St 21 docks in all
    870 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 60-04 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2019.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
30
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
114 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 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 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Forest Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Forest Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Ridgewood North Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 108 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1909 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 093 Ridgewood School
    950 feet
  2. The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rosemary's Playground
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District Listed historic place
    610 feet
  2. Ridgewood Library
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    890 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Forest Avenue or Gates Avenue.

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