Driggs Avenue & Monitor Street

Driggs Avenue and Monitor Street meet at a four-way crossing in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Matthew Jensen Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 110 the Monitor is 150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Meeker Av/Kingsland Av, is 670 feet away for the B24, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
670 feet
Meeker Av/Kingsland Av · B24
Within a walk
10 places
3 religious buildings, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Driggs Avenue & Monitor Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Meeker Av/Kingsland Av, 670 feet away, for the B24.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Meeker Av/Kingsland Av B24
    670 feet
    B24

Next buses at this stop

  1. B24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Driggs Avenue.

  • 44 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Driggs Ave & N Henry St 57 docks in all
    260 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Meeker Avenue & Graham Avenue at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 497 Meeker Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 444 Graham Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11222
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Greenpoint
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Matthew Jensen Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2026 (Local Law 48 of 2026).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 104 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 46 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Driggs Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Driggs Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Monitor Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Monitor Street

  • Farmers market 2 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY MARCH 1 - DEC 19 SUNDAY 7AM-4PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as French Renaissance, and built in 1910.

  1. Winthrop Park Shelter Pavilion Designated landmark
    510 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Monsignor McGolrick Park.

  1. Monitor Memorial Statue by Antonio de Filippo, 1938
    470 feet
  2. Greenpoint War Memorial Statue by Carl Augustus Heber, 1923
    540 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 110 the Monitor School
    150 feet
  2. St Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Acad School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Msgr. McGolrick Park
    40 feet
  2. McGolrick Park Dog Run in Msgr. McGolrick Park Dog run
    380 feet
  3. Fidelity Triangle
    530 feet
Show all 4
  1. Monsignor Mcgolrick Playground
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Monsignor McGolrick Park and Shelter Pavilion Listed historic place
    720 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Cecilias Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    440 feet
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,210 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Driggs Avenue or Monitor 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, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.