Willoughby Avenue & Cypress Avenue

Willoughby Avenue and Cypress Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ridgewood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sunset Garden is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Jefferson St, is about five minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and 23 places to eat. About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1931 and 1940, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
7 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Jefferson St
1,190 feet · 5 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
1,030 feet
Flushing Av/Cypress Av · B57
Within a walk
5 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 garden and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Willoughby Avenue & Cypress Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Jefferson St, 1,190 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Jefferson St L
    1,190 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. DeKalb Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Cypress Av, 1,030 feet away, for the B57.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Cypress Av B57
    1,030 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Suydam St & St Nicholas Ave 17 docks in all
    730 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Borden Avenue & 60th Street, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 18-84 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 73 Starr Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1931 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cypress Avenue

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

West side of Cypress Avenue

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

North side of Willoughby Avenue

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

South side of Willoughby Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 162 the Willoughby School
    520 feet
  2. Inspire Kids Early Childhood Development Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Willoughby-Suydam Historic District Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and nine food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Cypress Avenue or Willoughby Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.