Barbey Street & Highland Boulevard

Barbey Street and Highland Boulevard meet at a three-way junction in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Reformation Lutheran Church is 1,260 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Jamaica Av/Barbey St, is 930 feet away for the Q56, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1910, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Barbey Street & Highland Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/Barbey St, 930 feet away, for the Q56.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/Barbey St Q56
    930 feet
    Q56

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Highland Boulevard.

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Highland Blvd & Vermont Pl 24 docks in all
    520 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Highland Boulevard & J Robinson Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 596 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.6 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
    2.9 miles

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 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 1901 and 1910.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highland Park
    300 feet
  2. Upper Highland Playground
    720 feet
  3. Highland Park Community Garden
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Reformation Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

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