Dekalb Avenue & Ryerson Street

Dekalb Avenue and Ryerson Street meet at a four-way crossing in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Walt Whitman Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. South Hall, one of three Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 420 feet away, and P.S. 270 Johann Dekalb is 1,050 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about four minutes on foot, for the G. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
1,010 feet · 4 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
De Kalb Av/Ryerson Av · B38
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 2 colleges and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dekalb Avenue & Ryerson Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 1,010 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Clinton-Washington Avs G
    1,010 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Classon Av G
    0.3 miles
    G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is De Kalb Av/Ryerson Av, 180 feet away, for the B38.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. De Kalb Av/Ryerson Av B38
    180 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Dekalb Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lafayette Ave & St James Pl 39 docks in all
    760 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 184 Classon Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 325 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Clinton Hill
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Walt Whitman Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 35 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Walt Whitman Way.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 178 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1874 and 1883.

  1. Pratt Institute Library Designated landmark
    400 feet
  2. South Hall Designated landmark
    420 feet
  3. Pratt Institute Main Building Designated landmark
    500 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 colleges
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Pratt Institute College · listed historic place
    810 feet
  2. Community Partnership Charter School
    1,050 feet
  3. P.S. 270 Johann Dekalb School
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. St Joseph's University - Main Campus College
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Underwood Park
    810 feet
  2. Underwood Park Playground
    1,070 feet
  3. Classon Playground
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Emmanuel Baptist Church Landmark · listed historic place
    560 feet

Fire and police

  1. 88th Precinct Police station
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Urban Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dekalb Avenue or Ryerson Street.

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