Onderdonk Avenue & Menahan Street

Onderdonk Avenue and Menahan 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. In 2025, 47 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 81q Jean Paul Richter is 990 feet away. The nearest subway, Seneca Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, five of them religious buildings, and 30 places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
Onderdonk Avenue & Menahan Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Seneca Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Seneca Av M
    0.3 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 Seneca Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Seneca Av/Bleecker St, 600 feet away, for the B38.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seneca Av/Bleecker St B38
    600 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Onderdonk Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Menahan St & Onderdonk Ave 20 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1517 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.5 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
    1.3 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 47 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,835th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any 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
34
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
88 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1930.

Since 2014 at least 7 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 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 April 2017 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Menahan Street

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

South side of Menahan Street

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

East side of Onderdonk Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Onderdonk Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 81q Jean Paul Richter School
    990 feet
  2. Wbees Forest House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Grove-Linden-St. John's Historic District Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 places to eat and 17 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 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Menahan Street or Onderdonk Avenue.

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