Central Avenue & Suydam Street

Central Avenue and Suydam Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (West), Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, nine school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Fermi Playground is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Central Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the M. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 34 places to eat. About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Central Av
670 feet · 3 min on foot · M
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
Myrtle Av/De Kalb Av · B54, M90, T410
Within a walk
24 places
11 religious buildings, 4 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Central Avenue & Suydam Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Central Av, 670 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Central Av M
    670 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
    0.5 miles
    M

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, 590 feet away, for the B54, M90 and T410.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Myrtle Av/De Kalb Av B54, M90, T410
    590 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.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Central Ave & Starr St 23 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1199 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 73 Starr Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2017.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, August 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 9 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,928th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any 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
34
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (West)
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 104 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and May 2025, 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 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Suydam Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Suydam Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 fire station
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bushwick United Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  2. Bushwick United Early Learn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  3. Achievement First University Prep High School
    1,050 feet
Show all 7
  1. Achievement First Voyager Charter School
    1,050 feet
  2. I.S. 347 School of Humanities School
    1,050 feet
  3. I.S. 349 Math, Science & Tech. School
    1,050 feet
  4. Bushwick United Housing Development Fund Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fermi Playground
    570 feet
  2. Know Waste Lands Garden
    630 feet
  3. Stockholm Street Garden
    1,110 feet

Health care

  1. Buena Vida Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eighty-Third Precinct Police Station and Stable Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 218 Fire station
    340 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    620 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 places to eat and 19 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

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