Decatur Street & Lewis Avenue

Decatur Street and Lewis Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Mount Lebanon Baptist Church is 150 feet away, and the Engine 214/Ladder 111 firehouse is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, Utica Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Utica Av
1,300 feet · 5 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Lewis Av/Bainbridge St · B15
Within a walk
17 places
6 religious buildings, 2 listed historic places and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Decatur Street & Lewis Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Utica Av, 1,300 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Utica Av A, C
    1,300 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.4 miles
    C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Children's Cathedral” (1996) by Jimmy James Greene at the Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lewis Av/Bainbridge St, 170 feet away, for the B15.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lewis Av/Bainbridge St B15
    170 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lewis Ave & Decatur St 19 docks in all
    80 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1802 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 419 Stuyvesant Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017
  • Turn calming, July 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
53 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1888 and 1919.

Since 2014 at least 103 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Decatur Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Decatur Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Lewis Avenue

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

West side of Lewis Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 466 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1883 and 1897.

  1. Embury Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    190 feet
  2. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd Parish House & Sun. School Designated landmark
    430 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Brownstone School
    440 feet
  2. M.S. 035 Stephen Decatur School · landmark
    440 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fulton Park
    590 feet
  2. Decatur Playground
    620 feet
  3. 462 Halsey Community Farm Garden
    730 feet
Show all 5
  1. Robert Fulton Statue in Fulton Park Park feature
    830 feet
  2. Harmony Park
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stuyvesant Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    410 feet
  2. Macon Library Landmark
    650 feet
  3. Stuyvesant Heights Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Lebanon Baptist Church Landmark
    150 feet
  2. St Philips Episcopal Anglican Church Landmark
    470 feet
  3. Gospel Temple Church of God House of worship
    470 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bethany Baptist Church House of worship
    920 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 214/Ladder 111 Fire station
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Decatur Street or Lewis Avenue.

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.