Dekalb Avenue & South Oxford Street

Dekalb Avenue and South Oxford Street meet at a three-way junction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Fort Greene Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fort Greene Park Playground is 200 feet away, and Albert J Parham Playground Pool is 1,080 feet away. The nearest subway, Fulton St, is about four minutes on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them playgrounds, and 31 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fulton St
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
De Kalb Av/South Portland Av · B38
Within a walk
15 places
3 playgrounds, 3 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dekalb Avenue & South Oxford Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fulton St, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fulton St G
    1,150 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Lafayette Av C
    0.3 miles
    C
  2. DeKalb Av B, Q, R
    0.4 miles
    B Q R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is De Kalb Av/South Portland Av, 260 feet away, for the B38.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. De Kalb Av/South Portland Av B38
    260 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Dekalb Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. DeKalb Ave & S Portland Ave 23 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 152 Ashland Place Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • 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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 98 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and October 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Dekalb Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

East side of South Oxford Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of South Oxford Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Fort Greene Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 377 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Italianate, and mostly built between 1860 and 1870.

  1. Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    680 feet
  2. St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    780 feet
  3. St. Michael's and St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    790 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 college
  • 1 garden
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Technical High School
    960 feet
  2. Compass Charter School
    1,080 feet
  3. M.S. 113 Ronald Edmonds Learning Center School
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn Hospital-Caledonia Hospital College
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Greene Park
    50 feet
  2. Fort Greene Park Playground
    200 feet
  3. Greene Garden
    310 feet
Show all 6
  1. Edmonds Playground
    600 feet
  2. Albert L. Parham Playground
    960 feet
  3. Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    1,180 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Hospital Center - Downtown Campus Hospital
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fort Greene Historic District Listed historic place
    350 feet
  2. Fort Greene Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,140 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Albert J Parham Playground Pool Swimming pool
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 places to eat and six food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dekalb Avenue or South Oxford Street.

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