Bushwick Avenue & Eldert Street

Bushwick Avenue and Eldert Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Tiger Playground is 720 feet away, and Cooper Street Block Buster Community Garden is 980 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
1,070 feet · 4 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Halsey St/Bushwick Av · B26
Within a walk
20 places
10 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bushwick Avenue & Eldert Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 1,070 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St J
    1,070 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “SOL'SCRYPTT” (2008) by SOL'SAX at the Halsey St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Bushwick Av, 350 feet away, for the B26.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Bushwick Av B26
    350 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eldert St & Bushwick Ave 22 docks in all
    50 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. 1534 Bushwick Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 342 Eldert Street Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026

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
41 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 25 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and December 2019, 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 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

North side of Eldert Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Eldert Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. GSS 319 Stanhope Child and Family Center Pre-K
    920 feet
  2. P.S./I.S. 045 Horace E. Greene School
    1,140 feet
  3. Achivement First Bushwick Charter School Elementary School
    1,240 feet
Show all 4
  1. Evergreen Middle School for Urban Exploration School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Evergreen Playground
    650 feet
  2. Tiger Playground
    720 feet
  3. Cooper Street Block Buster Community Garden
    980 feet
Show all 5
  1. Decatur Street Community Garden
    1,070 feet
  2. 721 Decatur Street Community Garden
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Saratoga Library
    940 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Seventh Day Church of God House of worship
    400 feet
  2. St Thomas Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bushwick Avenue or Eldert 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.