Dumont Avenue & Hinsdale Street

Dumont Avenue and Hinsdale Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Unity Plaza (Sites 4-27) development. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Unity Plaza Community Center is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, Livonia Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Livonia Av
1,070 feet · 4 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
850 feet
Snediker Av/Livonia Av · T426
Within a walk
11 places
5 schools, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dumont Avenue & Hinsdale Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Livonia Av, 1,070 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Livonia Av L
    1,070 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Sutter Av L
    0.3 miles
    L
  2. Junius St 3
    0.3 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Seasons” (2007) by Philemona Williamson at the Livonia Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Snediker Av/Livonia Av, 850 feet away, for the T426.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Snediker Av/Livonia Av T426
    850 feet
    T426

Next buses at this stop

  1. T426 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Dumont Avenue and Hinsdale Street.

  • 49 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Blake Ave & Hinsdale St 12 docks in all
    590 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Unity Plaza (Sites 4-27) development.

Since 2014 at least 573 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 77 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and October 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dumont Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Dumont Avenue

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

East side of Hinsdale Street

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

West side of Hinsdale Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 garden
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Gardens Elementary School
    480 feet
  2. School of the Future Brooklyn School
    480 feet
  3. Modern Organization and Human Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    640 feet
Show all 8
  1. Hyde Leadership Charter School - Brooklyn School
    1,100 feet
  2. P.S. 328 Phyllis Wheatley School
    1,100 feet
  3. Children's Corner Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet
  4. University Settlement Society of New York Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,230 feet
  5. Kids-Centric, Inc Pal A&m Schwartz School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Success Garden - East New York Garden
    520 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Unity Plaza Community Center
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dumont Avenue or Hinsdale 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.