Decatur Street & Howard Avenue

Decatur Street and Howard Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 710 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Saratoga Park is 590 feet away. The nearest subway, Ralph Av, is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ralph Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
850 feet
Ralph Av/Decatur St · B47
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Decatur Street & Howard Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ralph Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av C
    0.4 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Halsey St J
    0.4 miles
    J
  2. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Decatur St, 850 feet away, for the B47.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Decatur St B47
    850 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Chauncey St & Howard Ave 21 docks in all
    560 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. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 710 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 972nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 321 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
41
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and December 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Decatur Street

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

South side of Decatur Street

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

East side of Howard Avenue

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

West side of Howard Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Saratoga Square Park.

  1. Saratoga Park Memorial Sculpture by James S.J. Novelli and Anatoly Mikhailov, 1921
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Stuyvesant Heights Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    220 feet
  2. P.S. 137 Rachel Jean Mitchell School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Saratoga Park
    590 feet
  2. Saratoga Park Playground
    750 feet
  3. Carver Playground
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Westminster Bethany Presbyterian Church House of worship
    220 feet
  2. New Journey Church of Brooklyn House of worship
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Decatur Street or Howard Avenue.

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