Palmetto Street & Fairview Avenue

Palmetto Street and Fairview Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner lies on the edge of the Ridgewood North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Rosemary's Playground is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Av
810 feet · 3 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Gates Av/Fairview Av · B13
Within a walk
14 places
7 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Palmetto Street & Fairview Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Av, 810 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Forest Av M
    810 feet
    M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Seneca Av M
    0.3 miles
    M
  2. Fresh Pond Rd M
    0.5 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 Gates Av/Fairview Av, 350 feet away, for the B13.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Fairview Av B13
    350 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fairview Ave & Linden St 19 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 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
    0.8 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

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
104 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 1910 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of Fairview Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Fairview Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Palmetto Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Palmetto Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 130 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1909 and 1911.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 093 Ridgewood School
    540 feet
  2. The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    560 feet
  3. Wbees Forest House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rosemary's Playground
    300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District Listed historic place
    400 feet
  2. Ridgewood Library
    710 feet
  3. Grove-Linden-St. John's Historic District Listed historic place
    840 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Fairview Avenue or Palmetto Street.

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