Central Avenue & Stanhope Street

Central Avenue and Stanhope Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sinai Christian Church is 620 feet away, and South Bushwick Reformed Church is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, Central Av, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Central Av
810 feet · 3 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
Myrtle Av/De Kalb Av · B54, M90, T410
Within a walk
17 places
9 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Central Avenue & Stanhope Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Central Av, 810 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Central Av M
    810 feet
    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
    0.4 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 Myrtle Av/De Kalb Av, 510 feet away, for the B54, M90 and T410.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Myrtle Av/De Kalb Av B54, M90, T410
    510 feet
    B54 M90 T410

Next buses at this stop

  1. B54 …
  2. M90 …
  3. T410 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Central Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1517 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 73 Starr Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
34 and 37 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (West)
Elevation
49 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 58 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
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Central Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Central Avenue

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

North side of Stanhope Street

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

South side of Stanhope Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Bushwick United Housing Development Fund Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  2. Brooklyn United Children Preschool
    460 feet
  3. Bushwick United Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    670 feet
Show all 4
  1. Efficient Care Training Trade or language school
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Know Waste Lands Garden
    730 feet
  2. Stockholm Street Garden
    730 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eighty-Third Precinct Police Station and Stable Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sinai Christian Church House of worship
    620 feet
  2. St Barbaras RC Church House of worship
    1,120 feet
  3. South Bushwick Reformed Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 218 Fire station
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    790 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    990 feet
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 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 17 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Central Avenue or Stanhope 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.