Avenue T & East 26th Street

Avenue T and East 26th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Madison, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The nearest bus stop, Avenue U/E 27 St, is 990 feet away for the B3, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and four places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1935, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Avenue T & East 26th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue U/E 27 St, 990 feet away, for the B3.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/E 27 St B3 · Shelter
    990 feet
    B3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 13th Street at Belt Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2001 Gravesend Neck Road Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.2 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
46 and 48 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Madison
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in August 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 26th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of East 26th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 307726 and 310993.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built in 1834.

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings

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 subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

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