Decatur Street & Saratoga Avenue

Decatur Street and Saratoga 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. Saratoga Park is 590 feet away, and Saratoga Village Community Center is 1,080 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
Saratoga Av/Macdonough St · B7
Within a walk
16 places
8 religious buildings, 1 community center and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Decatur Street & Saratoga Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St J
    0.3 miles
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z
  2. Rockaway Av C
    0.5 miles
    C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “SOL'SCRYPTT” (2008) by SOL'SAX at the Halsey St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saratoga Av/Macdonough St, 210 feet away, for the B7.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saratoga Av/Macdonough St B7
    210 feet
    B7

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Decatur St & Saratoga Ave 21 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 419 Stuyvesant Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 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.

  • 4 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 March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, September 2025
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2026

About this corner

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 5 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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 April 2021 and January 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Decatur Street

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

South side of Decatur Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Saratoga Avenue

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

West side of Saratoga Avenue

  • 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
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Saratoga Park
    590 feet
  2. 721 Decatur Street Community Garden
    790 feet
  3. Saratoga Park Playground
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Saratoga Library
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Journey Church of Brooklyn House of worship
    360 feet
  2. Westminster Bethany Presbyterian Church House of worship
    990 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Saratoga Village Community Center
    1,080 feet
  2. Older adult center at 930 Halsey Street Older adult center
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: 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 Saratoga 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, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.