Bedford Avenue & Lorimer Street

Bedford Avenue and Lorimer Street meet at a six-way junction in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 423 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The sculpture “Bound Hands Rising Free” is 370 feet away. The nearest subway, Nassau Av, is about a minute on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 89 places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nassau Av
240 feet · 1 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Lorimer St/Nassau Av · B48
Within a walk
11 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Lorimer Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nassau Av, 240 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nassau Av G
    240 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Bedford Av L
    0.5 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lorimer St/Nassau Av, 50 feet away, for the B48.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lorimer St/Nassau Av B48
    50 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Nassau Avenue.

  • 92 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 9 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Nassau Ave 49 docks in all
    200 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Meeker Avenue & Graham Avenue at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 176 McGuinness Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 33 Norman Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 260 South 4th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 423 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,288th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 86 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11222
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Greenpoint
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,300 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 1931.

Since 2014 at least 16 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 110 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American beech.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2024 and August 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 7am to 7pm on Nassau Avenue (north side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Nassau Avenue (north side).

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Bedford Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 1PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-1PM

South side of Bedford Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Lorimer Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 309568, 329949, 329950 and 333479.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in McCarren Park.

  1. Father Jerzy Popieluszko Monument Sculpture by Stanislaw Lutostanski, 1990
    220 feet
  2. Bound Hands Rising Free Sculpture by Thomas Cleveland, 2000
    370 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Atelier de la casa Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    40 feet
  2. ABC Child Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    630 feet
  3. A-Tech High School
    830 feet
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  1. Winny's Happy Apple Place Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    850 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McCarren Park
    70 feet
  2. Vincent V Abate Playground
    870 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Banker's Anchor Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    790 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center Library
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,250 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 89 places to eat and 17 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue, Lorimer Street or Nassau Avenue.

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