Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Stretching east to Broadway and the Bushwick line, the eastern half of Bedford-Stuyvesant covers the Brooklyn blocks between Flushing and Atlantic Avenues.

1.48 square miles
84,653 residents, 2020 Census
218 street corners
7 subway stations
19 bus routes

It takes in Stuyvesant Heights, named for Peter Stuyvesant, the last governor of New Netherland; the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District was designated in 1971 and greatly enlarged in 2013. The original district's more than 430 buildings range from freestanding houses of the 1860s and 1870s to rowhouses of the 1870s and 1880s and apartment houses of 1888 to 1903, many with stoops, bay windows and ironwork. In the 20th century Bedford-Stuyvesant became one of the largest and best-known Black neighborhoods in the United States.

Sources: Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Brooklyn Landmarks-Stuyvesant Heights (Historic Districts Council); Bedford-Stuyvesant - Historic Districts Council's Six to Celebrate (Historic Districts Council); Stuyvesant Heights Historic District (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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Bedford-Stuyvesant (East) borders six areas, and Lewis Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 27 of 218.

Street map of Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn, outlined among Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Crown Heights (North), Ocean Hill and Bushwick (West), with its seven subway stations and St. Andrew's Playground.

Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
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

Flushing Av lines J M accessible
Myrtle Av lines J M Z
Kosciuszko St lines J
Gates Av lines J Z
Kingston-Throop Avs lines C
Utica Av lines A C accessible
Ralph Av lines C

Getting around

Seven subway stations and buses on 19 routes stop in or at the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant (East).

7 subway stations
2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
19 local bus routes

Local bus routes

B7
B15
B25
B26
B38
B43
B46
B46-SBS
B47
B52
B54
B57
M90
Q24
T410
T430
T432
T433
T440

Safety record

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

3,309 police-reported crashes at its corners
15.2 a corner, on average
10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
4 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 133 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals: 121
Accessible pedestrian signals: 30
Turn calming: 21
Barnes Dance all-way crossings: 3
Safety Improvement Projects: 1

Camera tickets

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

0 red-light camera tickets
9,886 school-zone speed camera tickets at 15 corners
0 bus-lane camera tickets

Most speed tickets: Lexington Avenue & Lewis Avenue, 1,753

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 84,653 residents in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), about 57,200 per square mile.

36,783 homes, 2020 Census
6,145 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 8,478 residential lots hold buildings from 1900 or earlier, and 83% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Brevoort, Roosevelt I, Roosevelt II and Sumner developments lie wholly or partly within Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), as does one more that NYCHA names by a building's address.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland: 30.2 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces: St. Andrew's Playground (3.5 acres), Saratoga Park (3.3 acres) and Jesse Owens Playground (2.3 acres)
Designated landmarks: The Antioch Baptist Church; and the Antioch Baptist Church, Church House
Historic districts: Alice and Agate Courts and Stuyvesant Heights, wholly or partly within Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)

Streets and trees

Trees: 6,766 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners: Lewis Avenue, with 27 of the area's 218
Height above sea level: From 31 feet at Broadway & Marcus Garvey Boulevard to 82 feet at Vernon Avenue & Lewis Avenue
Honorary street names: 8 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 41 schools and one library in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East).

Public schools: 24
Charter and private schools: 17
Library: Macon Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 39 bike-share stations stand in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East). The City's public art inventory lists three works in the area: Robert Fulton (1872), Saratoga Park Memorial (1921) and Freedom's Gate (1997).

39 bike-share stations
3 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 926 major felonies at places in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)

922 major felonies in 2024
4,344 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), the NYPD recorded another 344 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 15.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East).

Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), most about 1,250 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant (East) are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Bedford-Stuyvesant (East) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.

Map of Bedford-Stuyvesant (East): 21 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map. — Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), most about 1,250 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant (East) are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Bedford-Stuyvesant (East) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.

Police precincts: 81st (most of the area), 79th

1,190

2021

1,320

2022

1,120

2023

922

2024

926

2025

Major felonies recorded at places in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 496 major felonies at places in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), against 434 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.