Drew Street & 101st Avenue

Drew Street and 101st Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Little Bangladesh Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Liberty Avenue Plaza is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, 80 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
80 St
910 feet · 3 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Liberty Av/Drew St · Q8
Within a walk
12 places
8 religious buildings, 1 garden and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Drew Street & 101st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 80 St, 910 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. 80 St A
    910 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. A …
Outbound
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. Grant Av A
    0.3 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “SOAR” (2016) by Mia Pearlman at the 80 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Liberty Av/Drew St, 140 feet away, for the Q8.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av/Drew St Q8
    140 feet
    Q8

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 41 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Cross Bay Boulevard, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 519 Autumn Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive 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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
32 and 37 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
75 and 102 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-City Line
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Little Bangladesh Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 101st Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of 101st Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 327414.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Adl Institute Trade or language school
    820 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. BACDYS Garden (Bangladeshi American Development and Youth Services) Garden
    770 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Liberty Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    60 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Liberty Avenue War Memorial Monument or memorial
    670 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Redeeming Grace Baptist Church House of worship
    730 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    720 feet
  2. Golden Farms Supermarket
    830 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 101st Avenue or Drew Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.