Bushwick Avenue & Palmetto Street

Bushwick Avenue and Palmetto Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Salvation Army Brooklyn Bushwick Corps Community Center is 850 feet away, and Restoration Worship Temple is 990 feet away. The nearest subway, Gates Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Gates Av
1,250 feet · 5 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Gates Av/Bushwick Av · B52
Within a walk
25 places
12 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bushwick Avenue & Palmetto Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Gates Av, 1,250 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Gates Av J, Z
    1,250 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
    0.5 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Dream Train” (2002) by Chris Wade Robinson at the Gates Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gates Av/Bushwick Av, 350 feet away, for the B52.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Bushwick Av B52
    350 feet
    B52

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bushwick Ave & Linden St 29 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, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2017
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2019

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
51 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.

Since 2014 at least 116 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 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 January 2017 and May 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bushwick Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Bushwick Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

North side of Palmetto Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Palmetto Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 35 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1888 and 1896.

  1. Ridgewood Masonic Temple Designated landmark
    220 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 community center

Schools and child care

  1. Early Life Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet
  2. P.S. 299 Thomas Warren Field School
    880 feet
  3. Kids-Centric, Inc Ace Integration School
    900 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology School
    980 feet
  2. Hospital Clinic Home Center Instructional Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Madison Street Community Garden
    850 feet
  2. Concerned Citizens of Grove Street Community Garden
    880 feet
  3. Good Life Garden
    1,170 feet
Show all 5
  1. Umoja Garden
    1,310 feet
  2. New Madison Harvest Community Garden
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bushwick United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    640 feet
  2. Restoration Worship Temple House of worship
    990 feet
  3. Calvary & St Cyprians Church House of worship
    1,100 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 85 Palmetto Street Older adult center
    490 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1175 Gates Avenue Older adult center
    670 feet
  3. Salvation Army Brooklyn Bushwick Corps Community Center
    850 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,170 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    940 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bushwick Avenue or Palmetto 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.