Pine Street & Ridgewood Avenue

Pine Street and Ridgewood Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Blessed Sacrament Catholic Academy is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about three minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them schools, and 13 places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
9 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
870 feet · 3 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Crescent St/Ridgewood Av · B13
Within a walk
10 places
5 schools, 4 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pine Street & Ridgewood Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crescent St, 870 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    870 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Cypress Hills J
    0.4 miles
    J
  2. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wheel of Bloom-Soak up the Sun” (2007) by Jung Hyang Kim at the Crescent St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Crescent St/Ridgewood Av, 350 feet away, for the B13.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Crescent St/Ridgewood Av B13
    350 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 40 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 794 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
46 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2018 and October 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Pine Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Pine Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 17 School
    350 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 18 School
    350 feet
  3. Cypress Hills Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    420 feet
Show all 6
  1. Blessed Sacrament Catholic Academy School
    740 feet
  2. Highland Park Community School
    1,250 feet
  3. I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln School
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Blessed Sacrament Church House of worship
    710 feet
  2. Andrews Methodist Church Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    960 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    740 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 16 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 Pine Street or Ridgewood Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.