Bushwick Avenue & Hancock Street

Bushwick Avenue and Hancock Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 36 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Salvation Army Brooklyn Bushwick Corps Community Center is 740 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 17 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
28 hurt
36 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
980 feet · 4 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Halsey St/Bushwick Av · B26
Within a walk
17 places
12 religious buildings, 2 community centers and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bushwick Avenue & Hancock Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 980 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St J
    980 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
    0.5 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, 630 feet away, for the B26.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Hancock Street.

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & Hancock St 35 docks in all
    660 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1534 Bushwick Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 36 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 28 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
52 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1925.

Since 2014 at least 122 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bushwick Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 6 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 Hancock Street

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

South side of Hancock Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 2 community centers
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. People's Elementary School
    1,160 feet
  2. Traditional Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Madison Street Community Garden
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Restoration Worship Temple House of worship
    590 feet
  2. Bushwick United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    960 feet
  3. Seventh Day Church of God House of worship
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Salvation Army Brooklyn Bushwick Corps Community Center
    740 feet
  2. Saratoga Village Community Center
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    640 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 15 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bushwick Avenue or Hancock Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.