Bushwick Avenue & Scholes Street

Bushwick Avenue and Scholes Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Williamsburg Houses, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 200 feet away. The nearest subway, Montrose Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 39 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Montrose Av
500 feet · 2 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Bushwick Av/Montrose Av · L90
Within a walk
14 places
5 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bushwick Avenue & Scholes Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Montrose Av, 500 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. Montrose Av L
    500 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Grand St L
    1,080 feet
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bushwick Av/Montrose Av, 440 feet away, for the L90.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bushwick Av/Montrose Av L90
    440 feet
    L90

Next buses at this stop

  1. L90 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Scholes Street.

  • 68 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bushwick Ave & Stagg St 21 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Meeker Avenue & Graham Avenue at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 451 Lorimer Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 14 Harrison Place Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 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
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Williamsburg
Elevation
44 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1938.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 46 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and December 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bushwick Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Bushwick Avenue

  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

North side of Scholes Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-THURSDAY 8:30AM-4PM

South side of Scholes Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and nine buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Modern. They were mostly built between 1935 and 1938.

  1. Williamsburg Houses Designated landmark
    200 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. M.S. 582 School
    260 feet
  2. P.S. 196 Ten Eyck School
    260 feet
  3. Creative Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    430 feet
Show all 4
  1. Colony-South Brooklyn Houses Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ten Eyck Playground
    480 feet
  2. Martinez Playground
    1,160 feet
  3. Scholes Street Children’s Garden
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Evangelist Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 202 Graham Avenue Older adult center
    950 feet
  2. Williamsburg Community Center
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Beyond Natural Market Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bushwick Avenue or Scholes Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.