Dumont Avenue & Hemlock Street

Dumont Avenue and Hemlock Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Scholars Charter School is 350 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Linden Blvd/Crescent St, is 760 feet away for the B13, B15 and B20, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
760 feet
Linden Blvd/Crescent St · B13, B15, B20
Within a walk
7 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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Dumont Avenue & Hemlock Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Linden Blvd/Crescent St, 760 feet away, for the B13, B15 and B20.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Linden Blvd/Crescent St B13, B15, B20
    760 feet
    B13 B15 B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …
  2. B15 …
  3. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1249 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 April 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-City Line
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 800 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 1930 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dumont Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Dumont Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Hemlock Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Hemlock Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Scholars Charter School
    350 feet
  2. Colony South Brooklyn Houses Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Euclid / Pine Street Block Association Garden
    570 feet
  2. Cypress Hills Playground
    850 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Fortunata RC Church House of worship
    320 feet
  2. Greater Bright Light Baptist Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 39/Engine 225/Ladder 107 Fire station
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dumont Avenue or Hemlock Street.

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