Eastern Parkway & Herkimer Street

Eastern Parkway and Herkimer Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 3,066 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. New Hope Pentecostal Church is 670 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about four minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Fulton St/Eastern Pkwy · B25
Within a walk
16 places
12 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Eastern Parkway & Herkimer Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av C
    1,150 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Broadway Junction A, C, J, L, Z
    0.3 miles
    A C J L Z
  2. Atlantic Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fulton St/Eastern Pkwy, 330 feet away, for the B25.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fulton St/Eastern Pkwy B25
    330 feet
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Herkimer St & Eastern Pkwy 20 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2111 Monaco Place Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,066 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 290th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2,211 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
37
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
86 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 95 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2015 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Eastern Parkway

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

West side of Eastern Parkway

  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 10AM-4PM

North side of Herkimer Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Herkimer Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./ I.S. 155 Nicholas Herkimer School
    290 feet
  2. Imagine Me Leadership Charter School
    520 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Callahan-Kelly Playground
    370 feet
  2. Phoenix Community Garden
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Hope Pentecostal Church House of worship
    670 feet
  2. International Revival Tabernacle House of worship
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

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

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eastern Parkway or Herkimer Street.

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