Seneca Avenue & Stephen Street

Seneca Avenue and Stephen Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Herman Hochberg Plaza is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them schools, and 38 places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1931, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Summerfield St/Seneca Av · B20
Within a walk
14 places
4 schools, 3 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Seneca Avenue & Stephen Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St 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
    0.5 miles
    M
  2. Forest Av M
    0.5 miles
    M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Summerfield St/Seneca Av, 610 feet away, for the B20.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Summerfield St/Seneca Av B20
    610 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Centre St & Seneca Ave 23 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 960 Cypress Avenue Gas station
    1,220 feet
  2. 391 Weirfield Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2020.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2021

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
70 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 83 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2021 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Seneca Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Seneca Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Stephen Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Stephen Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Six buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1909 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Joseph F. Quinn Intermediate School 77 School
    570 feet
  2. Queens International Secondary School
    570 feet
  3. P.S. 239 School
    1,180 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet
  2. P.S. 068 Cambridge School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Evergreen Park
    1,060 feet
  2. Evergreen Park Playground
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Herman Hochberg Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    910 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Seneca Avenue East Historic District Listed historic place
    280 feet
  2. Forest-Norman Historic District Listed historic place
    880 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ridgewood Presbyterian Church House of worship
    990 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Ridgewood Older Adult Center and Services Older adult center
    1,120 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    910 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    920 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  2. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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