Metropolitan Avenue & 61st Street

Metropolitan Avenue and 61st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Notre Dame Catholic Academy is 490 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Metropolitan Av/Fresh Pond Rd, is 240 feet away for the Q38, Q54 and Q67, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
1.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
Metropolitan Av/Fresh Pond Rd · Q38, Q54, Q67
Within a walk
4 places
2 religious buildings, 1 fire station and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Metropolitan Avenue & 61st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metropolitan Av/Fresh Pond Rd, 240 feet away, for the Q38, Q54 and Q67.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metropolitan Av/Fresh Pond Rd Q38, Q54, Q67
    240 feet
    Q38 Q54 Q67

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q38 …
  2. Q54 …
  3. Q67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eliot Ave & 60 Ln 22 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Borden Avenue & 60th Street, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 60-04 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    890 feet
  2. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, one fast charger
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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
96 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 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 1920 and 1935.

Trees

Thirteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2014 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 61st Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 61st Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Metropolitan Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Notre Dame Catholic Academy School
    490 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church House of worship
    510 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 291/Ladder 140 Fire station
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    600 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 61st Street or Metropolitan Avenue.

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