Blake Avenue & Hinsdale Street

Blake Avenue and Hinsdale Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Police Service Area #2 is 1,050 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av
1,130 feet · 4 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
700 feet
Sutter Av/Hinsdale St · B14
Within a walk
12 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Blake Avenue & Hinsdale Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av, 1,130 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av L
    1,130 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Livonia Av L
    0.3 miles
    L
  2. Junius St 3
    0.4 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Habitat for the Yellow Bird” (2007) by Takayo Noda at the Sutter Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sutter Av/Hinsdale St, 700 feet away, for the B14.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av/Hinsdale St B14
    700 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Blake Avenue and Hinsdale Street.

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Blake Ave & Hinsdale St 12 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are 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 1971 and 2000.

Since 2014 at least 418 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 94 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Blake Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-6PM

South side of Blake Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Hinsdale Street

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

West side of Hinsdale Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Modern Organization and Human Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    70 feet
  2. Hyde Leadership Charter School - Brooklyn School
    530 feet
  3. P.S. 328 Phyllis Wheatley School
    530 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn Gardens Elementary School
    1,050 feet
  2. School of the Future Brooklyn School
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Success Garden - East New York Garden
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Beth-El Church House of worship
    980 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Unity Plaza Community Center
    500 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #2 Police station
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,020 feet
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Blake Avenue or Hinsdale Street.

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