Central Avenue & Harman Street

Central Avenue and Harman Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, six school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 376 is 920 feet away. The nearest subway, Central Av, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Central Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
910 feet
Wilson Av/Himrod St · B60
Within a walk
18 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Central Avenue & Harman Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Central Av M
    0.3 miles
    M

Next trains at this station

Inbound
1 line
  1. M …
Middle Village
1 line
  1. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Knickerbocker Av M
    0.3 miles
    M
  2. Kosciuszko St J
    0.5 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Generation Dynamica” (2013) by George Bates at the Central Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wilson Av/Himrod St, 910 feet away, for the B60.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wilson Av/Himrod St B60
    910 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Central Avenue and Harman Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Central Ave & Himrod St 25 docks in all
    270 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1517 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.5 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
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 6 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,941st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 6 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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 (West)
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 44 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and May 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Central Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Central Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Harman Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Harman Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Spanish Colonial Revival, and built between 1907 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 playground
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Bushwick United Housing Development Fund Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    890 feet
  2. P.S. 376 School
    920 feet
  3. Brooklyn United Children Preschool
    980 feet
Show all 8
  1. Efficient Care Training Trade or language school
    1,050 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Bushwick School
    1,050 feet
  3. Bushwick United Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
  4. Achievement First Bushwick Charter School
    1,250 feet
  5. J.H.S. 383 Philippa Schuyler School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Heckscher Playground
    1,180 feet
  2. Know Waste Lands Garden
    1,250 feet
  3. Stockholm Street Garden
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Barbaras RC Church Landmark
    600 feet
  2. Sinai Christian Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,310 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Central Avenue or Harman Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.