Erskine Street & Schroeders Avenue

Erskine Street and Schroeders Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Spring Creek-Starrett City, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Spring Creek Park is 950 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Vandalia Av/Erskine St, is 350 feet away for the B13, B84 and Q8, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and four places to eat.

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Erskine Street & Schroeders Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Vandalia Av/Erskine St, 350 feet away, for the B13, B84 and Q8.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vandalia Av/Erskine St B13, B84, Q8
    350 feet
    B13 B84 Q8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …
  2. B84 …
  3. Q8 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1121 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11239
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Spring Creek-Starrett City

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2018 and 2025.

Since 2014 at least 528 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Berriman Playground
    420 feet
  2. Spring Creek Park Nature area
    950 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    520 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Gateway Center Shopping center
    950 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • 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:

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