Decatur Street & Stuyvesant Avenue

Decatur Street and Stuyvesant Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd Parish House & Sun. School stands 400 feet away. The nearest subway, Utica Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, eight of them schools, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Utica Av
1,030 feet · 4 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
880 feet
Fulton St/Stuyvesant Av · T440
Within a walk
22 places
8 schools, 7 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Decatur Street & Stuyvesant Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Utica Av, 1,030 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Utica Av A, C
    1,030 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. 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 Fulton St/Stuyvesant Av, 880 feet away, for the T440.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fulton St/Stuyvesant Av T440
    880 feet
    T440

Next buses at this stop

  1. T440 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Chauncey St & Stuyvesant Ave 25 docks in all
    590 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1802 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 419 Stuyvesant Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    730 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017

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
61 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 1888 and 1901.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 7 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 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Decatur Street

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

East side of Stuyvesant Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Stuyvesant Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 592 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1884 and 1897.

  1. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd Parish House & Sun. School Designated landmark
    400 feet
  2. Embury Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    640 feet
  3. Holy Rosary School Designated landmark
    650 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 8 schools
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Community Parents Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
  2. Boys and Girls High School
    1,000 feet
  3. Nelson Mandela High School
    1,000 feet
Show all 9
  1. Research and Service High School
    1,000 feet
  2. Ember Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation School
    1,060 feet
  3. P.S. 262 El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Elementary School
    1,060 feet
  4. Kids-Centric, Inc Community Parents School
    1,110 feet
  5. Brooklyn Brownstone School
    1,260 feet
  6. M.S. 035 Stephen Decatur School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. El Shabazz Playground
    580 feet
  2. Fulton Park
    590 feet
  3. Elizabeth Stroud Playground
    680 feet
Show all 4
  1. Robert Fulton Statue in Fulton Park Park feature
    810 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fulton Park Plaza Listed historic place
    1,190 feet
  2. Stuyvesant Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Philips Episcopal Anglican Church Landmark
    450 feet
  2. Mount Lebanon Baptist Church House of worship
    750 feet
  3. Holy Rosary RC Church Landmark
    750 feet
Show all 5
  1. Gospel Temple Church of God House of worship
    1,290 feet
  2. Bridge Street AME Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  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 15 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Decatur Street or Stuyvesant 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.