Fresh Pond Road & Woodbine Street

Fresh Pond Road and Woodbine Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner is also named Maureen Walthers Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 1,523 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. Fresh Pond Post Office is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, Fresh Pond Rd, is about three minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and 34 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fresh Pond Rd
740 feet · 3 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
570 feet
Fresh Pond Rd/Putnam Av · M90, Q58, Q98, T410 +3
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 listed historic place and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Fresh Pond Road & Woodbine Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fresh Pond Rd, 740 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Fresh Pond Rd M
    740 feet
    M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Forest Av M
    0.4 miles
    M

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fresh Pond Rd/Putnam Av, 570 feet away, for the M90, Q58, Q98, T410 and three more.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fresh Pond Rd/Putnam Av M90, Q58, Q98, T410 +3 · Shelter
    570 feet
    M90 Q58 Q98 T410 QM24 QM25 QM34
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M90 …
  2. Q58 …
  3. Q98 …
  4. T410 …
  5. QM24 …
  6. QM25 …
  7. QM34 …

Live arrivals

Fresh Pond Road carries a bus lane, 3pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 64 St & Woodbine St 19 docks in all
    650 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 62-52 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, one fast charger
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018
  • Turn calming, April 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,523 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 96th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 838 more were issued.

Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

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
103 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Maureen Walthers Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Maureen Walthers Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 45 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 8 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Fresh Pond Road

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Fresh Pond Road

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-3PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 3PM-7PM

North side of Woodbine Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Woodbine Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-3PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 3PM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 401464, 456800, 456801 and 460733.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 84 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built in 1911.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Benninger Playground
    280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fresh Pond-Traffic Historic District Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Fresh Pond Post Office
    110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    590 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    1,040 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Fresh Pond Road or Woodbine Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.