Bushwick Avenue & Woodbine Street

Bushwick Avenue and Woodbine Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Madison Street Community Garden is 590 feet away. The nearest subway, Gates Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
20 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Gates Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Gates Av/Bushwick Av · B52
Within a walk
22 places
10 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bushwick Avenue & Woodbine Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Gates Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Gates Av J, Z
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.4 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, 610 feet away, for the B52.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 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
    820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 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
    0.5 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 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 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
48 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 87 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 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 January 2014 and January 2024, 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 Woodbine Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Woodbine Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built in 1896.

  1. Ridgewood Masonic Temple Designated landmark
    460 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

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

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Madison Street Community Garden
    590 feet
  2. Umoja Garden
    1,050 feet
  3. Concerned Citizens of Grove Street Community Garden
    1,140 feet
Show all 4
  1. Woodbine Street Block Association Garden
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Salvation Army Brooklyn Bushwick Corps Community Center
    590 feet
  2. Older adult center at 85 Palmetto Street Older adult center
    750 feet
  3. Older adult center at 1175 Gates Avenue Older adult center
    930 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,190 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 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bushwick Avenue or Woodbine 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.