Bushwick (East)

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Running from Bedford-Stuyvesant toward Ridgewood, Queens, the eastern part of Bushwick reaches southeast to the edge of the cemeteries around Highland Park.

  • 1.00 square mile
  • 62,049 residents, 2020 Census
  • 178 street corners
  • 8 subway stations
  • 17 bus routes

Chartered by the Dutch in 1661 as Boswijck, Bushwick drew large numbers of German immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s, and around 1900 brewery owners and doctors built mansions along Bushwick and Irving Avenues. Puerto Rican and Dominican families were among those who settled here in the 20th century, and Bushwick is now the most populous Hispanic community in Brooklyn. Irving Square Park, bought by Kings County in 1895 and landscaped the following year, lies within the area.

Sources: Bushwick, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Irving Square Park (NYC Parks); Maria Hernandez Park (NYC Parks).

Map

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Bushwick (East) borders six areas, and Bushwick Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 37 of 182.

Street map of Bushwick (East), Brooklyn, outlined among Bushwick (West), Ridgewood, Ocean Hill and The Evergreens Cemetery, with its eight subway stations and Irving Square Park.RidgewoodCypress HillsOcean HillBedford-Stuyvesant (East)Bushwick (West)
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  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs lines L M accessible
  • Halsey St lines L
  • Gates Av lines J Z
  • Wilson Av lines L
  • Halsey St lines J
  • Chauncey St lines J Z
  • Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St lines L
  • Broadway Junction lines J Z

Getting around

Eight subway stations and buses on 17 routes stop in or at the edge of Bushwick (East).

  • 8 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 17 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B7
  • B13
  • B20
  • B26
  • B38
  • B47
  • B52
  • B54
  • B60
  • B111
  • L90
  • M90
  • Q24
  • Q55
  • T410
  • T430
  • T433

Safety record

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

  • 3,344 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 18.4 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 49 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
37
Accessible pedestrian signals
15
Turn calming
6
Safety Improvement Projects
2

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
  • 1,037 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Bushwick Avenue & Jefferson Avenue, 435

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 62,049 residents in Bushwick (East), about 62,000 per square mile.

  • 23,784 homes, 2020 Census
  • 3,947 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,949 residential lots hold buildings from 1915 or earlier, and 79% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
14.3 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Irving Square Park (2.9 acres), Bushwick Playground (2.8 acres) and Thomas Boyland Park (1.8 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Ridgewood Masonic Temple, the Engine Company No. 252, Public School 116 (The Elizabeth Farrell School) and the Reformed Church of South Bushwick, among others
Historic district
Linden Street Historic District, wholly or partly within Bushwick (East)

Streets and trees

Trees
4,343 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Bushwick Avenue, with 37 of the area's 182
Honorary street names
7 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 26 schools and one library in Bushwick (East).

Public schools
18
Charter and private schools
8
Library
Washington Irving Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 30 bike-share stations stand in Bushwick (East). The City's public art inventory lists two works in the area: Untitled Stainless Steel Sculpture (1983) and Sentinel Lanterns (2007).

  • 30 bike-share stations
  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 581 major felonies at places in Bushwick (East).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Bushwick (East)

  • 723 major felonies in 2024 142 fewer in 2025
  • 2,240 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Bushwick (East), the NYPD recorded another 208 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 12.7 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Bushwick (East).

Map of Bushwick (East): 15 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.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Bushwick (East), 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Bushwick (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 Bushwick (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 Bushwick (East) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
83rd
Major felonies recorded at places in Bushwick (East), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 323 major felonies at places in Bushwick (East), against 261 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.