Hemlock Street & Ridgewood Avenue

Hemlock Street and Ridgewood Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Highland Park Community School is 650 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about four minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1920, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
12 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
1,060 feet · 4 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Crescent St/Ridgewood Av · B13
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hemlock Street & Ridgewood Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crescent St, 1,060 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    1,060 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Cypress Hills J
    0.3 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wheel of Bloom-Soak up the Sun” (2007) by Jung Hyang Kim at the Crescent St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Crescent St/Ridgewood Av, 410 feet away, for the B13.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Crescent St/Ridgewood Av B13
    410 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 41 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 794 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hemlock Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Hemlock Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Highland Park Community School
    650 feet
  2. I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln School
    650 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 17 School
    950 feet
Show all 5
  1. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 18 School
    950 feet
  2. Cypress Hills Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. East New York Baptist Church House of worship
    790 feet
  2. Blessed Sacrament Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    730 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    800 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 22 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 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hemlock Street or Ridgewood Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.