Madison Street & Forest Avenue

Madison Street and Forest Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner lies on the edge of the Central Ridgewood Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 46 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. I.S. 093 Ridgewood is 240 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Av
410 feet · 2 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Forest Av/Woodbine St · B13
Within a walk
14 places
8 religious buildings, 2 listed historic places and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Madison Street & Forest Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Av, 410 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. Forest Av M
    410 feet
    M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Fresh Pond Rd M
    0.4 miles
    M
  2. Seneca Av M
    0.4 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 Forest Av/Woodbine St, 170 feet away, for the B13.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Woodbine St B13
    170 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Madison St & Forest Ave 25 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 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
    0.9 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2017.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 46 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,837th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 20 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
30
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
110 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of Forest Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Forest Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Madison Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Madison Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 214 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1908 and 1911.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 093 Ridgewood School
    240 feet
  2. The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    330 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rosemary's Playground
    340 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ridgewood Library
    250 feet
  2. Madison-Putnam-60th Place Historic District Listed historic place
    800 feet
  3. Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District Listed historic place
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Forest Avenue or Madison Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.