Stanhope Street & Cypress Avenue

Stanhope Street and Cypress Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Battalion 28/Engine 271/Ladder 124 firehouse is 920 feet away. The nearest subway, DeKalb Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1931, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
8 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
DeKalb Av
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
Seneca Av/Stockholm St · B38
Within a walk
10 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Stanhope Street & Cypress Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is DeKalb Av, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. DeKalb Av L
    1,000 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Jefferson St L
    0.5 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Seneca Av/Stockholm St, 690 feet away, for the B38.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wyckoff Ave & Stanhope St 22 docks in all
    1,010 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1517 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11237
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
34 and 37 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
83 and 104 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 1931.

Since 2014 at least 16 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

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

East side of Cypress Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Cypress Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Stanhope Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Stanhope Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Learners and Leaders School
    580 feet
  2. Inspire Kids Early Childhood Development Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet
  3. P.S. 81q Jean Paul Richter School
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Grand Street Sett Stanhope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,280 feet

Health care

  1. Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Hospital
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cypress Avenue West Historic District Listed historic place
    820 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 28/Engine 271/Ladder 124 Fire station
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    930 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

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