Madison

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Just south of Midwood, with Kings Highway along its northern edge, Madison is a residential section of Sheepshead Bay in southern Brooklyn, and it takes its name from James Madison High School.

  • 0.98 square miles
  • 41,465 residents, 2020 Census
  • 154 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 16 bus routes

Two early houses survive here. The Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead on East 22nd Street, a Dutch Colonial farmhouse built about 1766, housed Hessian officers during the American Revolution and passed to the Bennett family with its farm of about 100 acres in 1835. On East 28th Street, the Elias Hubbard Ryder House, built in 1834 with Dutch Colonial touches, was later moved to its present lot; both are city landmarks.

Sources: Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead (LP-0173) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Elias Hubbard Ryder House (LP-0920) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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Madison borders six areas, and Avenue T holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 154.

Street map of Madison, Brooklyn, outlined among Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Midwood and Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, with its two subway stations and Kelly Park Playground.MidwoodFlatlandsMarine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen BeachMarine Park-Plumb IslandSheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen BeachGravesend (East)-Homecrest
  • Madison
  • 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

  • Kings Hwy lines B Q accessible
  • Avenue U lines Q

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 16 routes stop in or at the edge of Madison.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 14 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B2
  • B3
  • B7
  • B31
  • B36
  • B41
  • B44
  • B44-SBS
  • B49
  • B82
  • B82-SBS
  • B100
  • B102
  • T464

Express bus routes

  • BM3
  • BM4

Safety record

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

  • 1,176 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.6 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 8 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 82 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
72
Accessible pedestrian signals
26
Turn calming
18

Camera tickets

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

  • 431 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 15,687 school-zone speed camera tickets at 15 corners
  • 1,832 bus-lane camera tickets at four corners
Most red-light tickets
Nostrand Avenue & Kings Highway, 431
Most speed tickets
Gerritsen Avenue & Ford Street, 3,257
Most bus-lane tickets
Kings Highway & East 16th Street, 1,404

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 41,465 residents in Madison, about 42,300 per square mile.

  • 16,183 homes, 2020 Census
  • 938 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,614 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 78% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
3.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Kelly Park Playground (1.4 acres), Kelly Park Playground (1.1 acres) and Galapo Playground (0.6 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,966 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Japanese flowering cherry
Street with the most corners
Avenue T, with 23 of the area's 154
Height above sea level
From 9 feet at East 28th Street & Gravesend Neck Road to 24 feet at Nostrand Avenue & Kings Highway
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 15 schools and one library in Madison.

Public schools
3
Charter and private schools
12
Library
Kings Highway Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 318 major felonies at places in Madison.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Madison

  • 324 major felonies in 2024
  • 914 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Madison, the NYPD recorded another 57 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 9.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Madison.

Map of Madison: 13 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 Madison, 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 Madison, most about 1,000 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 Madison 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 Madison and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
61st (most of the area), 70th, 63rd
Major felonies recorded at places in Madison, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 140 major felonies at places in Madison, against 152 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.