Onderdonk Avenue & Suydam Street

Onderdonk Avenue and Suydam Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Starr Playground is 310 feet away. The nearest subway, Jefferson St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them listed historic places, and three places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1950, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Jefferson St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
970 feet
Seneca Av/De Kalb Av · B38
Within a walk
5 places
2 listed historic places, 1 garden and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Onderdonk Avenue & Suydam Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Jefferson St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Jefferson St L
    0.5 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. DeKalb Av L
    0.5 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Seneca Av/De Kalb Av, 970 feet away, for the B38.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seneca Av/De Kalb Av B38 · Shelter
    970 feet
    B38
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Onderdonk Avenue.

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Willoughby Ave & Onderdonk Ave 27 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Borden Avenue & 60th Street, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 18-84 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 57-77 Rust Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 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 June 2020.

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
79 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1950.

Since 2014 at least 89 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

East side of Onderdonk Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Onderdonk Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Suydam Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Suydam Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Fourteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Classical Revival, and mostly built in 1909.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sunset Garden
    160 feet
  2. Starr Playground
    310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stockholm-Dekalb-Hart Historic District Listed historic place
    910 feet
  2. Vander Ende--Onderdonk House Site Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    1,060 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Onderdonk Avenue or Suydam Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.