Seneca Avenue & Summerfield Street

Seneca Avenue and Summerfield Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Evergreen Park is 560 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about six minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them listed historic places, and 14 places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1931, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Summerfield St/Seneca Av · B20
Within a walk
11 places
3 listed historic places, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Seneca Avenue & Summerfield 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.

  1. Halsey St L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Summerfield St/Seneca Av, 120 feet away, for the B20.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Seneca Ave & Decatur St 20 docks in all
    450 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 960 Cypress Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 342 Eldert Street Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six 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 June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 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
73 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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 June 2021 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Seneca Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Seneca Avenue

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

North side of Summerfield Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Summerfield Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    710 feet
  2. P.S. 068 Cambridge School
    740 feet
  3. Joseph F. Quinn Intermediate School 77 School
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. Queens International Secondary School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Evergreen Park
    560 feet
  2. Evergreen Park Playground
    740 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Seneca Avenue East Historic District Listed historic place
    780 feet
  2. Forest-Norman Historic District Listed historic place
    850 feet
  3. Summerfield Street Row Historic District Listed historic place
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,190 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

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