Bleecker Street & St Nicholas Avenue

Bleecker Street and St Nicholas Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Battalion 28/Engine 271/Ladder 124 firehouse is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, DeKalb Av, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
DeKalb Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
660 feet
Wyckoff Av/Bleecker St · B13
Within a walk
12 places
5 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bleecker Street & St Nicholas Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is DeKalb Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. DeKalb Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.3 miles
    L M
  2. Knickerbocker Av M
    0.4 miles
    M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wyckoff Av/Bleecker St, 660 feet away, for the B13.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wyckoff Av/Bleecker St B13
    660 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Menahan St & Wyckoff Ave 20 docks in all
    830 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1517 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11237
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (West)
Elevation
62 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and January 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bleecker Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Bleecker Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. St Brigid Catholic Academy School
    630 feet
  2. P.S. 81q Jean Paul Richter School
    650 feet
  3. New Life Child Development Center 3 Pre-K
    820 feet
Show all 5
  1. New Life Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  2. New Life Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cypress Avenue West Historic District Listed historic place
    740 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Brigids RC Church House of worship
    730 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 28/Engine 271/Ladder 124 Fire station
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 16 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bleecker Street or St Nicholas Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.