Blake Avenue & Grafton Street

Blake Avenue and Grafton Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Howard Malls is 480 feet away, and Amboy Street Garden is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, is about six minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Saratoga Av/Blake Av · B7
Within a walk
16 places
7 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Blake Avenue & Grafton Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Saratoga Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Ailanthus” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Sutter Av-Rutland Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saratoga Av/Blake Av, 610 feet away, for the B7.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saratoga Av/Blake Av B7
    610 feet
    B7

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Legion St & Blake Ave 12 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 24 Dumont Avenue Gas station
    1,100 feet
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 1930 and 1935.

Since 2014 at least 26 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2021 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Blake Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Blake Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Grafton Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Grafton Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 392 School
    490 feet
  2. P.S. 156 Waverly School
    490 feet
  3. Brooklyn Ascend Charter Middle School
    1,030 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fantasy Garden
    310 feet
  2. Sunkissed Garden
    370 feet
  3. Howard Garden
    450 feet
Show all 6
  1. Howard Malls Park
    480 feet
  2. Isabahlia Community Garden
    980 feet
  3. Amboy Street Garden
    1,110 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Green Village Supermarket Supermarket
    1,130 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,160 feet
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: 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 Blake Avenue or Grafton 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.