Autumn Avenue & Etna Street

Autumn Avenue and Etna Street meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. East New York Baptist Church is 980 feet away. The nearest subway, Cypress Hills, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cypress Hills
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
Crescent St/Etna St · B13
Within a walk
7 places
4 religious buildings and 3 schools, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Autumn Avenue & Etna Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cypress Hills, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cypress Hills J
    1,000 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Crescent St J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z
  2. 75 St-Elderts Ln J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Five Points of Observation” (1990) by Kathleen McCarthy at the Cypress Hills station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Crescent St/Etna St, 690 feet away, for the B13.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Crescent St/Etna St B13
    690 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 794 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Autumn Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Autumn Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Etna Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Etna Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Highland Park Community School
    930 feet
  2. I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln School
    930 feet
  3. P.S. 007 Abraham Lincoln School
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. East New York Baptist Church House of worship
    980 feet
  2. Universal Church House of worship
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Autumn Avenue or Etna Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.