Flushing Avenue & Garden Street

Flushing Avenue and Garden Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (West), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Bushwick development. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 120 Carlos Tapia is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing Av, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
990 feet · 4 min on foot · J, M
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Flushing Av/Bushwick Av · B57
Within a walk
16 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flushing Avenue & Garden Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av J, M
    990 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. Myrtle Av J, M, Z
    0.4 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/Bushwick Av, 270 feet away, for the B57.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Bushwick Av B57
    270 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 640 Bushwick Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 7 Marcus Garvey Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1,060 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2020

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
31 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

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

Since 2014 at least 274 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
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2021 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Flushing Avenue

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

East side of Garden Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Garden Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Garden Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Luminous Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    420 feet
  2. Luminous Bushwick Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    420 feet
  3. P.S. 120 Carlos Tapia School
    480 feet
Show all 4
  1. Ohel Chaya School
    750 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Garden Playground
    40 feet
  2. Bushwick Playground
    180 feet
  3. Beaver Noll Park
    940 feet
Show all 4
  1. Beaver Knoll Park
    980 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Calvary FBH Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Bushwick Pool Swimming pool
    430 feet
  2. Older adult center at 9 Noll Street Older adult center
    840 feet
  3. Metropolitan Post Office Listed historic place
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bushwick/Hylan Community Center
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,040 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 14 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flushing Avenue or Garden Street.

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.