Decatur Street & Patchen Avenue

Decatur Street and Patchen Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bed-Stuy Farm is 270 feet away, and Bethenia Baptist Church is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, Utica Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Utica Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
Halsey St/Patchen Av · B26
Within a walk
19 places
12 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Decatur Street & Patchen Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Utica Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    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. Ralph Av 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 Halsey St/Patchen Av, 900 feet away, for the B26.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Patchen Av B26
    900 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Patchen Ave & Bainbridge St 19 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 52 Rochester Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 419 Stuyvesant Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 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 8 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Decatur Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Decatur Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Patchen Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Patchen Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon Excellence Boys Charter School NYC School
    500 feet
  2. P.S. 021 Crispus Attucks School
    890 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Bainbridge Street Community Garden
    140 feet
  2. Bed-Stuy Farm Garden
    270 feet
  3. Welcome Home Garden
    1,140 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brevoort Playground
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Immanuel Congregational Church Listed historic place
    440 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Nazarene Congregational United Church of Christ House of worship
    210 feet
  2. St Johns AME Church House of worship
    820 feet
  3. Bethenia Baptist Church House of worship
    1,030 feet
Show all 4
  1. Christ Fellowship Baptist Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Decatur Street or Patchen 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.