Onderdonk Avenue & Madison Street

Onderdonk Avenue and Madison Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner lies inside the Ridgewood South Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. St Matthias RC Church is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, Seneca Av, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 50 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Seneca Av
890 feet · 3 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Madison St/Onderdonk Av · Q58
Within a walk
10 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 listed historic places and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Onderdonk Avenue & Madison Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Seneca Av, 890 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seneca Av M
    890 feet
    M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Forest Av M
    1,230 feet
    M
  2. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.4 miles
    L M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Dom (Variations)” (2013) by Laura F. Gibellini at the Seneca Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Madison St/Onderdonk Av, 110 feet away, for the Q58.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Madison St/Onderdonk Av Q58
    110 feet
    Q58

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q58 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Onderdonk Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Madison St & Seneca Ave 22 docks in all
    460 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. 960 Cypress Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, August 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
34
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
81 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 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 1911 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Norway maple and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2021 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Madison Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Madison Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Onderdonk Avenue

  • Doctor plates only 1 sign DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Onderdonk Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Ridgewood South Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 192 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1911 and 1913.

  1. St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church Rectory Designated landmark
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Supermoon Art Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    220 feet
  2. The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  3. I.S. 093 Ridgewood School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rosemary's Playground
    560 feet
  2. Myrtle Avenue Clemens Triangle
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District Listed historic place
    360 feet
  2. Ridgewood Library
    1,200 feet
  3. Cypress Avenue East Historic District Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Matthias RC Church Landmark · listed historic place
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 50 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Madison Street or Onderdonk Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.