Etna Street & Highland Place

Etna Street and Highland Place meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Sam Leggio Triangle by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Worship Center Iglesia Cristiana is 270 feet away. The nearest subway, Norwood Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Norwood Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Jamaica Av/Shepherd Av · Q56
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Etna Street & Highland Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Norwood Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Culture Swirl” (2007) by Margaret Lanzetta at the Norwood Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/Shepherd Av, 330 feet away, for the Q56.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/Shepherd Av Q56 · Shelter
    330 feet
    Q56
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Jamaica Ave & Elton St 18 docks in all
    1,260 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 596 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes 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 July 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
56 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sam Leggio Triangle, a co-naming enacted on March 22, 1988 (Local Law 13 of 1988).

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 1910 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sam Leggio Triangle.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and March 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Etna Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Etna Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Highland Place

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 playground
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. New Age Family Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet
  2. Saint Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
  3. Simfran Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sam Leggio Triangle
    40 feet
  2. Highland Park
    210 feet
  3. Lower Highland Playground
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Worship Center Iglesia Cristiana House of worship
    270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. North Brooklyn YMCA Recreation center
    190 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Etna Street or Highland Place.

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