Greene Avenue & Fairview Avenue

Greene Avenue and Fairview Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Grover Cleveland Playground is 820 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1915 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
6 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
1,240 feet
Stanhope St/Grandview Av · B38
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Greene Avenue & Fairview Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Forest Av M
    0.4 miles
    M

Next trains at this station

Inbound
1 line
  1. M …
Middle Village
1 line
  1. 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 Stanhope St/Grandview Av, 1,240 feet away, for the B38.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Stanhope St/Grandview Av B38
    1,240 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Greene Ave & Grandview Ave 17 docks in all
    530 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Borden Avenue & 60th Street, 1.7 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
    0.9 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 seven crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

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
111 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 1915 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2014 and September 2021, 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 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Greene Avenue

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

South side of Greene Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Wbees Forest House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grover Cleveland Playground
    820 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Grove-Linden-St. John's Historic District Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, 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 Fairview Avenue or Greene 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.