Gates Avenue & St Nicholas Avenue

Gates Avenue and St Nicholas Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 97 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. St Brigid Catholic Academy is 540 feet away. The nearest subway, Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs, is about three minutes on foot, for the L and M. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 66 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs
670 feet · 3 min on foot · L, M
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Gates Av/Saint Nicholas Av · B13
Within a walk
17 places
5 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Gates Avenue & St Nicholas Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs, 670 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    670 feet
    L M

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …
Inbound
1 line
  1. M …
Middle Village
1 line
  1. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Seneca Av M
    1,240 feet
    M
  2. Knickerbocker Av M
    0.5 miles
    M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “From Earth to Sky” (2006) by Cadence Giersbach at the Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gates Av/Saint Nicholas Av, 40 feet away, for the B13.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Saint Nicholas Av B13
    40 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wyckoff Ave & Gates Ave 36 docks in all
    540 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1517 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,240 feet
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 97 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,762nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 53 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
34 and 37 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
83 and 104 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 1930 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 7 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

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

North side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Gates Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 443738.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 1 community center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. St Brigid Catholic Academy School
    540 feet
  2. New Life Child Development Center 3 Pre-K
    820 feet
  3. Love and Care Health Career Center Trade or language school
    820 feet
Show all 7
  1. New York Career and Business School, Trade or language school
    830 feet
  2. Ultissima Beauty Inst-Ridgewood Trade or language school
    830 feet
  3. New Life Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  4. New Life Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Myrtle Avenue Clemens Triangle
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Venditti Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    620 feet
  2. Wyckoff Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    620 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cypress Avenue East Historic District Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Brigids RC Church House of worship
    400 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Wyckoff Community Center
    600 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    510 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    110 feet
  2. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    960 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 66 places to eat and 23 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Gates Avenue or St Nicholas Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, 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.