Bushwick Avenue & Schaefer Street

Bushwick Avenue and Schaefer Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Evergreen Playground is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, Chauncey St, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
11 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Chauncey St
1,210 feet · 5 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Schaefer St/Bushwick Av · B20
Within a walk
20 places
11 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bushwick Avenue & Schaefer Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Chauncey St, 1,210 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    1,210 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
    0.3 miles
    J
  2. Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “El Views” (2002) by Maria Dominguez at the Chauncey St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Schaefer St/Bushwick Av, 130 feet away, for the B20.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Schaefer St/Bushwick Av B20
    130 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eldert St & Bushwick Ave 22 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2017

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
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.

Since 2014 at least 62 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and March 2020, 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 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

North side of Schaefer Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. GSS 319 Stanhope Child and Family Center Pre-K
    400 feet
  2. P.S./I.S. 045 Horace E. Greene School
    620 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Evergreen Playground
    130 feet
  2. Cooper Street Block Buster Community Garden
    470 feet
  3. Decatur Street Community Garden
    540 feet
Show all 7
  1. Cooper Street Community Garden
    840 feet
  2. Tiger Playground
    970 feet
  3. Moffat Garden
    1,140 feet
  4. Moffat Street Community Garden
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Seventh Day Church of God House of worship
    490 feet
  2. St Thomas Episcopal Church House of worship
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Schaefer 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.