Essex Street & Schroeders Avenue

Essex Street and Schroeders Avenue meet at a three-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 Community School is 1,290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/Essex St, is 1,140 feet away for the B84, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and two places to eat.

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Essex Street & Schroeders Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/Essex St, 1,140 feet away, for the B84.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/Essex St B84
    1,140 feet
    B84

Next buses at this stop

  1. B84 …

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, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2024.

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
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 2009 and 2016.

Since 2014 at least 152 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Little Hearts and Stars Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    650 feet
  2. Urban Strategies Early Learn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet
  3. Academy for Young Writers School
    1,290 feet
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  1. Spring Creek Community School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Berriman Playground
    550 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Gateway Center Shopping center
    450 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

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