Bushwick Avenue & Putnam Avenue

Bushwick Avenue and Putnam Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Salvation Army Brooklyn Bushwick Corps Community Center is 120 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
840 feet
Broadway/Madison St · Q24
Within a walk
18 places
8 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bushwick Avenue & Putnam Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St J
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.4 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/Madison St, 840 feet away, for the Q24.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Madison St Q24
    840 feet
    Q24

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & Madison St 25 docks in all
    910 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2017

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 1,800 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 42 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bushwick Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 7 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 Putnam Avenue

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

South side of Putnam Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 community center
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Traditional Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    800 feet
  2. P.S. 299 Thomas Warren Field School
    900 feet
  3. People's Elementary School
    920 feet
Show all 6
  1. Hospital Clinic Home Center Instructional Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
  2. Kids-Centric, Inc Ace Integration School
    1,160 feet
  3. Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Madison Street Community Garden
    450 feet
  2. Umoja Garden
    690 feet

Houses of worship

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Salvation Army Brooklyn Bushwick Corps Community Center
    120 feet
  2. Older adult center at 85 Palmetto Street Older adult center
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: 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 Putnam Avenue.

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.