Broadway & Throop Avenue

Broadway and Throop Avenue meet at a three-way junction in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sternberg Park is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, Broadway, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them schools, and ten places to eat. About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Broadway
280 feet · 1 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Broadway/Boerum St · B46
Within a walk
17 places
5 schools, 3 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & Throop Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Broadway, 280 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway G
    280 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Lorimer St J, M
    340 feet
    J M
  2. Hewes St J, M
    1,050 feet
    J M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Boerum St, 120 feet away, for the B46.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Boerum St B46
    120 feet
    B46

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Boerum St & Broadway 19 docks in all
    260 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 249 Lynch Street Gas station
    920 feet
  2. 7 Marcus Garvey Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 260 South 4th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33 and 34 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Williamsburg

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 29 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Imperial' thornless honeylocust and the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and January 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Broadway

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Throop Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Throop Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 3 parks
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 318 Eugenio Maria de Hostos School
    830 feet
  2. Talmud Torah of Kasho School
    920 feet
  3. Beth Rachel School-Girls-68 School
    1,150 feet
Show all 7
  1. Bnos Yakov School for Girls School
    1,150 feet
  2. United Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
  3. BR School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,260 feet
  4. Beth Rachel School for Girls 60 School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lindsay Triangle
    340 feet
  2. Harmony Triangle
    770 feet
  3. Sternberg Park
    770 feet
Show all 6
  1. De Hostos Playground
    940 feet
  2. George Washington Carver Community Garden
    980 feet
  3. Sternberg Park Playground
    1,040 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 35/Engine 216/Ladder 108 Fire station
    740 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    960 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and nine 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 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Broadway or Throop Avenue.

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