Ridgewood

Neighborhood · Queens

Ridgewood sits on the Queens side of the Brooklyn border next to Bushwick, with Maspeth to the north and Glendale to the southeast.

  • 1.53 square miles
  • 66,402 residents, 2020 Census
  • 288 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 22 bus routes

Its land once straddled the colonial towns of Newtown and Bushwick, and the neighborhood is named for the nearby Ridgewood Reservoir, built in the late 1850s. German immigrants drove much of its growth, and most houses in its historic core went up between 1906 and World War I, many designed by one local architectural firm and built of Staten Island brick; about 990 buildings form the Central Ridgewood Historic District, designated in 2014.

Sources: Central Ridgewood Historic District Designation Report (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Ridgewood, Queens (Wikipedia).

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Ridgewood borders eight areas, and Seneca Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 29 of 302.

Street map of Ridgewood, Queens, outlined among Maspeth, Glendale, Bushwick (East) and Bushwick (West), with its six subway stations and Mafera Park.GlendaleBushwick (East)Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (North)Bushwick (West)MaspethEast Williamsburg
  • Ridgewood
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Middle Village-Metropolitan Av lines M accessible
  • Fresh Pond Rd lines M
  • Forest Av lines M
  • Seneca Av lines M
  • Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs lines L accessible
  • Halsey St lines L

Getting around

Six subway stations and buses on 22 routes stop in or at the edge of Ridgewood.

  • 6 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 19 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B13
  • B20
  • B26
  • B38
  • B52
  • B54
  • B57
  • B111
  • L90
  • M90
  • Q14
  • Q38
  • Q39
  • Q54
  • Q55
  • Q58
  • Q67
  • Q98
  • T410

Express bus routes

  • QM24
  • QM25
  • QM34

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 2,124 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.0 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 18 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 77 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
61
Accessible pedestrian signals
56
Turn calming
7
Safety Improvement Projects
5
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
4

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than bus-lane or red-light tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 6,073 school-zone speed camera tickets at ten corners
  • 1,523 bus-lane camera tickets at one corner
Most speed tickets
Metropolitan Avenue & Rentar Plaza, 3,394
Most bus-lane tickets
Fresh Pond Road & Woodbine Street, 1,523

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 66,402 residents in Ridgewood, about 43,400 per square mile.

  • 26,014 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,345 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 7,403 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 91% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
18.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Mafera Park (6.8 acres), Grover Cleveland Playground (5.1 acres) and Evergreen Park (3 acres)
Designated landmark
The Ridgewood Theater
Historic districts
Central Ridgewood, Ridgewood North, Ridgewood South and Stockholm Street, wholly or partly within Ridgewood

Streets and trees

Trees
6,131 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and littleleaf linden
Street with the most corners
Seneca Avenue, with 29 of the area's 302
Height above sea level
From 10 feet at Metropolitan Avenue & Onderdonk Avenue to 127 feet at 60th Place & Menahan Street
Honorary street names
7 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 15 schools and one library in Ridgewood.

Public schools
12
Charter and private schools
3
Library
Ridgewood Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 42 bike-share stations stand in Ridgewood. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Ridgewood Memorial (1920).

  • 42 bike-share stations
  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 534 major felonies at places in Ridgewood.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Ridgewood

  • 623 major felonies in 2024 89 fewer in 2025
  • 1,925 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Ridgewood, the NYPD recorded another 140 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 10.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Ridgewood.

Police precinct
104th
Major felonies recorded at places in Ridgewood, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 279 major felonies at places in Ridgewood, against 264 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.