Blake Avenue & Logan Street

Blake Avenue and Logan Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Cypress Hills Playground is 720 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Fountain Av/Blake Av, is 320 feet away for the Q8, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Fountain Av/Blake Av · Q8
Within a walk
15 places
7 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Blake Avenue & Logan Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fountain Av/Blake Av, 320 feet away, for the Q8.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fountain Av/Blake Av Q8
    320 feet
    Q8

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Blake Avenue.

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1249 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 2 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Blake Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-1PM

South side of Blake Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Logan Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Logan Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Cypress Hill Library.

  1. Family Library Table Ornamental gates by Rolando Briseno, 1995
    750 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Blake-Milford Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    360 feet
  2. J.H.S. 218 James P. Sinnott School
    380 feet
  3. School for Classics High School
    380 feet
Show all 5
  1. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers, 16 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    460 feet
  2. Miles of Smiles Daycare Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cypress Hills Playground
    720 feet
  2. 400 Montauk Community Garden
    1,060 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cypress Hills Library
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,260 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Blake Avenue or Logan Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, 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.