Seneca Avenue & Linden Street

Seneca Avenue and Linden Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. St Brigids RC Church is 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, Seneca Av, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 44 places to eat. About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1930, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Seneca Av
490 feet · 2 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Seneca Av/Gates Av · B38
Within a walk
11 places
7 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Seneca Avenue & Linden Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Seneca Av, 490 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seneca Av M
    490 feet
    M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.4 miles
    L M
  2. Forest Av M
    0.5 miles
    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/Gates Av, 300 feet away, for the B38.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seneca Av/Gates Av B38
    300 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Menahan St & Seneca Ave 16 docks in all
    540 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 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
    0.5 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2024

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
86 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

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 December 2019 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Linden Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Linden Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Seneca Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Seneca Avenue

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Ten buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1907 and 1913.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 81q Jean Paul Richter School
    1,090 feet
  2. Supermoon Art Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet
  3. St Brigid Catholic Academy School
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cypress Avenue East Historic District Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Brigids RC Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 44 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Linden Street or Seneca Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, 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.