Seneca Avenue & Troutman Street

Seneca Avenue and Troutman Street meet at a three-way junction in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Starr Playground is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, Jefferson St, is about six minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and ten places to eat. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1950, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Jefferson St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
Flushing Av/Onderdonk Av · B57
Within a walk
3 places
1 garden, 1 listed historic place and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Seneca Avenue & Troutman Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Jefferson 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 Flushing Av/Onderdonk Av, 950 feet away, for the B57.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Onderdonk Av B57
    950 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Troutman Street.

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 10 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Jefferson St & Cypress Ave 25 docks in all
    820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Borden Avenue & 60th Street, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 18-84 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 73 Starr Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 57-77 Rust Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 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 March 2020.

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
45 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 1930 and 1950.

Since 2014 at least 80 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2021 and May 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Seneca Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Seneca Avenue

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

South side of Troutman Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Dutch Colonial, and built between 1750 and 1775.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Starr Playground
    480 feet
  2. Sunset Garden
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Vander Ende--Onderdonk House Site Listed historic place
    510 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Seneca Avenue or Troutman Street.

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