Bedford Avenue & Wallabout Street

Bedford Avenue and Wallabout Street meet at a four-way crossing in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 30 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Cong Yeshuos Moshe of Williamsburg is 400 feet away, and Penn Triangle is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the G. Within a five-minute walk are 57 public places, 18 of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
30 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Wallabout St/Bedford Av · B48
Within a walk
57 places
18 religious buildings, 17 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Wallabout Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing Av G
    0.4 miles
    G

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wallabout St/Bedford Av, 40 feet away, for the B48.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wallabout St/Bedford Av B48
    40 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet, all of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wallabout St & Kent Ave 23 docks in all
    990 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 711 Kent Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 28-17 42nd Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 30 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 21 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2019
  • Turn calming, July 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Williamsburg
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1995 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 22 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of Wallabout Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Wallabout Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY SUNDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-5PM FRIDAY 8AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as French Second Empire, and built between 1888 and 1889.

  1. Public School 71K Designated landmark
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 57 public places.

  • 18 religious buildings
  • 17 day care or pre-K sites
  • 16 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Beth Chana DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    60 feet
  2. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    60 feet
  3. Beth Chana School
    180 feet
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  1. Yeshiva Yesodah Hatorah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    60 feet
  2. Cong Yeshuos Moshe of Williamsburg School
    400 feet
  3. Darkei Tshivo of Dinov School
    400 feet
  4. Talmud Torah Tzemach Tzadik Viznitz School
    400 feet
  5. Child care center at 77-87 Wallabout Street School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    400 feet
  6. Omni Childhood Center - Heyward School
    500 feet
  7. Yeshiva Mesivta Arugath Habosem School
    550 feet
  8. Eis Laasois Child Development Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    640 feet
  9. Bnois Spinka School
    650 feet
  10. Gan Bnos Yisroel Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    670 feet
  11. School Based Child Care School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    670 feet
  12. Mosdos Chasidei Square School
    680 feet
  13. TT Skver Williamsburg School
    680 feet
  14. Uta 128 School
    740 feet
  15. Yeshiva Bnos Israel School
    790 feet
  16. Williamsburg Infant & Early Childhoo Preschool
    900 feet
  17. Ach Tov V'Chesed School · school-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    910 feet
  18. Uta 125 School
    920 feet
  19. Blocks Childcare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    940 feet
  20. Little Munchkins Playgroup 56 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    980 feet
  21. Jolly Baby Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    990 feet
  22. Yeshivath Kehilath Yakov Pre-K
    1,070 feet
  23. Yeshiva Early Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet
  24. Williamsburg Daycare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,090 feet
  25. KHHD Yoel of Satmar BP School
    1,120 feet
  26. Bnei Shimon Yisroel of Sopron School
    1,130 feet
  27. Central Uta Boys Division School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,140 feet
  28. Bais Ruchel D'Satmar - Boys School
    1,190 feet
  29. Owl Early Intervention Program Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sarah J.S. Tompkins Garnet Playground
    560 feet
  2. Classon Triangle
    1,000 feet
  3. Classon Playground
    1,190 feet
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  1. Penn Triangle Playground
    1,200 feet

Health care

  1. Bedford Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    420 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 125 Heyward Street Older adult center
    920 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. One Stop Kosher Supermarket
    920 feet
  2. Chestnut Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 21 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Wallabout Street.

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