Woodbine Street & Forest Avenue

Woodbine Street and Forest Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Ridgewood, Queens. The corner is also named Frank Koestner Avenue by local law. It lies on the edge of the Ridgewood North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Benninger Playground is 1,270 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Av
730 feet · 3 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Forest Av/Woodbine St · B13
Within a walk
15 places
8 religious buildings, 2 listed historic places and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Woodbine Street & Forest Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Av, 730 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Forest Av M
    730 feet
    M

Next trains at this station

Inbound
1 line
  1. M …
Middle Village
1 line
  1. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Seneca Av M
    0.4 miles
    M
  2. Fresh Pond Rd M
    0.4 miles
    M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Dom (Variations)” (2013) by Laura F. Gibellini at the Forest Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Forest Av/Woodbine St, 90 feet away, for the B13.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Forest Av/Woodbine St B13
    90 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Madison St & Forest Ave 25 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 60-04 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
30
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ridgewood
Elevation
113 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Frank Koestner Avenue, a co-naming enacted on June 3, 2003 (Local Law 34 of 2003).

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 1910 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Frank Koestner Avenue.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Forest Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Forest Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Woodbine Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-2PM

South side of Woodbine Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Ridgewood North Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 203 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1908 and 1911.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 093 Ridgewood School
    430 feet
  2. The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    660 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rosemary's Playground
    500 feet
  2. Benninger Playground
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ridgewood Library
    570 feet
  2. Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District Listed historic place
    630 feet
  3. Madison-Putnam-60th Place Historic District Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    1,220 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

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