Ridgewood Avenue & Chestnut Street

Ridgewood Avenue and Chestnut Street meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Andrews Methodist Church is 410 feet away, and Achievement First East New York Charter School 2 is 790 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about six minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
980 feet
Crescent St/Ridgewood Av · B13
Within a walk
12 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ridgewood Avenue & Chestnut Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crescent St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    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. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z
  2. Cypress Hills J
    0.4 miles
    J

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, 980 feet away, for the B13.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 766 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 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 1,200 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 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Summer Charm' Peking lilac and the hardy rubber tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and January 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Chestnut Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Chestnut Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Romanesque Revival (early), and built in 1870.

  1. Public School 65K Designated landmark
    600 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Achievement First East New York Charter School 2 School
    790 feet
  2. Blessed Sacrament Catholic Academy School
    850 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 17 School
    980 feet
Show all 6
  1. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 18 School
    980 feet
  2. Cypress Hills Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  3. Simfran Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Chestnut Street Garden
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Andrews Methodist Church Listed historic place
    410 feet
  2. Blessed Sacrament Church House of worship
    480 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 3208 Fulton Street Older adult center
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Chestnut 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.