Bushwick Avenue & Pilling Street

Bushwick Avenue and Pilling Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 32 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Granite Street Community Garden is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, nine of them gardens, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
27 hurt
32 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St
910 feet · 3 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
790 feet
Broadway/Granite St · B20, Q24
Within a walk
22 places
9 gardens, 8 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bushwick Avenue & Pilling Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St, 910 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St L
    910 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Granite St, 790 feet away, for the B20 and Q24.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Granite St B20, Q24
    790 feet
    B20 Q24

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. Q24 …

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
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 32 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 27 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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
82 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 18 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bushwick Avenue

  • 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 Pilling Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Pilling Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 9 gardens
  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. GSS 319 Stanhope Child and Family Center Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  2. Superior Day Care Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Contented Hart Garden
    190 feet
  2. Granite Street Community Garden
    570 feet
  3. Thomas Boyland Park
    700 feet
Show all 12
  1. Rudd Playground
    820 feet
  2. Cooper Street Community Garden
    910 feet
  3. Cooper Street Block Buster Community Garden
    920 feet
  4. Aberdeen Street Community Garden
    930 feet
  5. Moffat Garden
    1,020 feet
  6. Moffat Street Community Garden
    1,020 feet
  7. Infant Jesus Community Garden
    1,080 feet
  8. Decatur Street Community Garden
    1,190 feet
  9. Evergreen Playground
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Episcopal Church House of worship
    670 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    670 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and 12 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bushwick Avenue or Pilling Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.