Cypress Hills

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Cypress Hills lies on Brooklyn's eastern edge, between Bushwick and the Queens line.

  • 0.87 square miles
  • 43,256 residents, 2020 Census
  • 193 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 12 bus routes

In August 1776, during the Battle of Long Island, British and Hessian troops ended an all-night march at the nearby Jamaica Pass to outflank the American army. Once a rural stretch of the Town of New Lots, the area was built up after elevated trains reached Jamaica Avenue in 1885 and Fulton Street in 1889. To the north lie Highland Park, set aside around the Ridgewood Reservoir in 1891, and the Cypress Hills National Cemetery, which began as a burial ground for Civil War dead and passed to the federal government in 1870.

Sources: East New York, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Highland Park (NYC Parks); Cypress Hills National Cemetery (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).

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Cypress Hills borders eight areas, and Jamaica Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 39 of 196.

Street map of Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, outlined among East New York (North), Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South), East New York-City Line and Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (North), with its six subway stations and Highland Park.Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South)East New York-City LineWoodhavenEast New York (North)Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (North)Ocean HillBushwick (East)
  • Cypress Hills
  • 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

  • Cypress Hills lines J
  • Crescent St lines J Z
  • Norwood Av lines J Z
  • Cleveland St lines J
  • Broadway Junction lines L
  • Van Siclen Av lines J Z

Getting around

Six subway stations and buses on 12 routes stop in or at the edge of Cypress Hills.

  • 6 subway stations
  • 12 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B12
  • B13
  • B20
  • B25
  • B83
  • J90
  • Q7
  • Q24
  • Q56
  • T340
  • T430
  • T434

Safety record

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

  • 2,180 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 11.1 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 8 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 48 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
42
Accessible pedestrian signals
10
Turn calming
5
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 4,349 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 35,953 school-zone speed camera tickets at five corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Pennsylvania Avenue & Jamaica Avenue, 2,203

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 43,256 residents in Cypress Hills, about 49,700 per square mile.

  • 13,936 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,049 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,805 residential lots hold buildings from 1910 or earlier, and 95% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
8.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Highland Park (5.1 acres), Sperandeo Brothers Playground (2.8 acres) and George Walker Jr. Park (0.6 acre)
Designated landmarks
Public School 108 and Public School 65K

Streets and trees

Trees
3,467 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Japanese flowering cherry and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Jamaica Avenue, with 39 of the area's 196
Height above sea level
From 24 feet at 93rd Avenue & Eldert Lane to 157 feet at Highland Boulevard & Heath Place
Honorary street name
1 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 18 schools and one library in Cypress Hills.

Public schools
10
Charter and private schools
8
Library
Arlington Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, eight bike-share stations stand in Cypress Hills.

  • 8 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 421 major felonies at places in Cypress Hills.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Cypress Hills

  • 484 major felonies in 2024 63 fewer in 2025
  • 1,406 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Cypress Hills, the NYPD recorded another 147 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 13.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Cypress Hills.

Map of Cypress Hills: 11 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 Cypress Hills, 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 Cypress Hills, most about 1,500 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 Cypress Hills 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 Cypress Hills and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
75th
Major felonies recorded at places in Cypress Hills, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 242 major felonies at places in Cypress Hills, against 199 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.