Seneca Avenue & Putnam Avenue

Seneca Avenue and Putnam Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The column “Ridgewood Memorial” is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Seneca Av, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them trade or language schools, and 72 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Seneca Av
760 feet · 3 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Seneca Av/Cornelia St · B38
Within a walk
11 places
3 trade or language schools, 2 listed historic places and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Seneca Avenue & Putnam Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Seneca Av, 760 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Forest Av M
    0.3 miles
    M
  2. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.3 miles
    L 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/Cornelia St, 230 feet away, for the B38.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seneca Av/Cornelia St B38
    230 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Madison St & Seneca Ave 22 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 960 Cypress Avenue Gas station
    0.3 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
    1.6 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
30 and 34 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
73 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1911 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 18 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

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

North side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Seneca Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Seneca Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 455619.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 177 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1911 and 1913.

  1. Ridgewood Theater Designated landmark
    740 feet
  2. St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church Rectory Designated landmark
    790 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Myrtle Avenue Clemens Triangle.

  1. Ridgewood Memorial Column by Anton Schaaf, 1920
    570 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Supermoon Art Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    900 feet
  2. P.S. 239 School
    1,150 feet
  3. Love and Care Health Career Center Trade or language school
    1,290 feet
Show all 5
  1. New York Career and Business School, Trade or language school
    1,290 feet
  2. Ultissima Beauty Inst-Ridgewood Trade or language school
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Myrtle Avenue Clemens Triangle
    570 feet
  2. Clemens Triangle
    750 feet
  3. Rosemary's Playground
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District Listed historic place
    520 feet
  2. Cypress Avenue East Historic District Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Matthias RC Church Landmark · listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    1,010 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 72 places to eat and 22 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Putnam Avenue 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.