Flushing Avenue & Beaver Street

Flushing Avenue and Beaver Street meet at a three-way junction in Bushwick (West), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Bushwick development. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bushwick Playground is 70 feet away, and Beaver Knoll Park is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing Av, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
660 feet · 2 min on foot · J, M
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Flushing Av/Beaver St · B57
Within a walk
25 places
5 religious buildings, 3 schools and 13 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flushing Avenue & Beaver Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 660 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av J, M
    660 feet
    J M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Lorimer St J, M
    0.4 miles
    J M
  2. Myrtle Av J, M, Z
    0.5 miles
    J M Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Migration” (2006) by Robin Holder at the Flushing Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Beaver St, 40 feet away, for the B57.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Beaver St B57 · Shelter
    40 feet
    B57
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 68 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beaver St & Fayette St 30 docks in all
    140 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 640 Bushwick Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 7 Marcus Garvey Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    730 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2023
  • Turn calming, July 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
34
Police precinct
83 and 90 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (West)
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is 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 buildings holding them mostly went up in 1960.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Bushwick development.

Since 2014 at least 94 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beaver Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Beaver Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 11 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Luminous Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    90 feet
  2. Luminous Bushwick Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    90 feet
  3. Ohel Chaya School
    420 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 120 Carlos Tapia School
    670 feet
  2. Boricua College - Brooklyn College
    1,020 feet
  3. P.S. 257 John F. Hylan School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bushwick Playground
    70 feet
  2. Garden Playground
    210 feet
  3. Beaver Noll Park
    1,000 feet
Show all 6
  1. Bushwick Garden - Bushwick Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,130 feet
  2. Beaver Knoll Park
    1,160 feet
  3. Nos Cuidamos Community Garden
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Humboldt Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,200 feet

Health care

  1. Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center Hospital
    1,060 feet
  2. EMS Station 57 Ambulance station
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. William Ulmer Brewery Complex Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Bushwick Pool Swimming pool
    290 feet
  2. Metropolitan Post Office Listed historic place
    640 feet
  3. Bushwick/Hylan Community Center
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. Older adult center at 9 Noll Street Older adult center
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    970 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Green Corner Fish & Farmers Market Supermarket
    340 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    710 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and 20 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beaver Street or Flushing Avenue.

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