Bushwick Avenue & Decatur Street

Bushwick Avenue and Decatur Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 26 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Decatur Street Community Garden is 290 feet away. The nearest subway, Chauncey St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
16 hurt
26 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Chauncey St
950 feet · 4 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Decatur St/Bushwick Av · B20, B60
Within a walk
22 places
10 religious buildings, 7 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bushwick Avenue & Decatur Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Chauncey St, 950 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    950 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Halsey St J
    0.4 miles
    J
  2. Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “El Views” (2002) by Maria Dominguez at the Chauncey St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Decatur St/Bushwick Av, 40 feet away, for the B20 and B60.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Decatur St/Bushwick Av B20, B60
    40 feet
    B20 B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Moffat St & Bushwick 18 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1534 Bushwick Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 342 Eldert Street Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 26 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 144 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bushwick Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

West side of Bushwick Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

North side of Decatur Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Decatur Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 7 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. GSS 319 Stanhope Child and Family Center Pre-K
    140 feet
  2. P.S./I.S. 045 Horace E. Greene School
    620 feet
  3. Superior Day Care Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Evergreen Playground
    160 feet
  2. Cooper Street Block Buster Community Garden
    200 feet
  3. Decatur Street Community Garden
    290 feet
Show all 9
  1. Cooper Street Community Garden
    580 feet
  2. Moffat Garden
    880 feet
  3. Moffat Street Community Garden
    900 feet
  4. Tiger Playground
    1,230 feet
  5. 721 Decatur Street Community Garden
    1,230 feet
  6. Contented Hart Garden
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Episcopal Church House of worship
    400 feet
  2. Seventh Day Church of God House of worship
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 13 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 Bushwick Avenue or Decatur 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.