Gates Avenue & Fairview Avenue

Gates Avenue and Fairview Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner lies on the edge of the Ridgewood North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. I.S. 093 Ridgewood is 800 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Av
1,070 feet · 4 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Gates Av/Fairview Av · B13
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Gates Avenue & Fairview Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Av, 1,070 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Forest Av M
    1,070 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
    0.3 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 Gates Av/Fairview Av, 110 feet away, for the B13.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Fairview Av B13
    110 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fairview Ave & Linden St 19 docks in all
    360 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. 60-04 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five 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 June 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
104 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Fairview Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Fairview Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 101 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

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Wbees Forest House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    800 feet
  2. I.S. 093 Ridgewood School
    800 feet
  3. The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rosemary's Playground
    560 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District Listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. Grove-Linden-St. John's Historic District Listed historic place
    580 feet
  3. Ridgewood Library
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    1,240 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 19 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Fairview Avenue or Gates 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.