Bushwick Avenue & Jefferson Avenue

Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 435 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Bushwick United Methodist Church is 700 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
1,240 feet · 5 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
Broadway/Jefferson Av · Q24, T430
Within a walk
16 places
10 religious buildings, 2 community centers and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bushwick Avenue & Jefferson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 1,240 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St J
    1,240 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Gates Av 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 Broadway/Jefferson Av, 690 feet away, for the Q24 and T430.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Jefferson Av Q24, T430
    690 feet
    Q24 T430

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …
  2. T430 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Jefferson Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Jefferson Ave & Evergreen Ave 17 docks in all
    710 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
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 435 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,268th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 235 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
55 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 1920.

Since 2014 at least 119 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 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
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and May 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 Jefferson Avenue

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

South side of Jefferson Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. People's Elementary School
    910 feet
  2. Traditional Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Madison Street Community Garden
    970 feet
  2. Umoja Garden
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Restoration Worship Temple House of worship
    330 feet
  2. Bushwick United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    700 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Salvation Army Brooklyn Bushwick Corps Community Center
    480 feet
  2. Saratoga Village Community Center
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    900 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bushwick Avenue or Jefferson Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.