Seneca Avenue & Stanhope Street

Seneca Avenue and Stanhope Street 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. Learners and Leaders is 240 feet away. The nearest subway, DeKalb Av, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1930, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
DeKalb Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Seneca Av/Stockholm St · B38
Within a walk
4 places
2 religious buildings, 1 listed historic place and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Seneca Avenue & Stanhope Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. DeKalb Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Seneca Av M
    0.4 miles
    M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Seneca Av/Stockholm St, 170 feet away, for the B38.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seneca Av/Stockholm St B38
    170 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Harman St & Seneca Ave 19 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 18-84 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 57-77 Rust Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 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
79 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 in 1930.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Seneca Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Seneca Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Stanhope Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Stanhope Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 24 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Classical Revival, and mostly built between 1908 and 1909.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Learners and Leaders School
    240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stockholm-Dekalb-Hart Historic District Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    400 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and ten 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Seneca Avenue or Stanhope Street.

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.