Flushing Avenue & Gerry Street

Flushing Avenue and Gerry Street meet at a three-way junction in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Beginning With Children Charter School 2 is 560 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing Av, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
100 feet · 1 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Flushing Av/Marcy Av · B57
Within a walk
19 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 4 playgrounds and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flushing Avenue & Gerry Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 100 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av G
    100 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle-Willoughby Avs G
    0.3 miles
    G
  2. Lorimer St J, M
    0.4 miles
    J M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Marcy Av, 50 feet away, for the B57.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Marcy Av B57
    50 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Union Ave & Wallabout St 31 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 212 Harrison Avenue Gas station
    1,050 feet
  2. 28-17 42nd Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33 and 36 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
79 and 90 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 1998 and 2021.

Since 2014 at least 154 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and December 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 2AM-5AM

South side of Gerry Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Kiddies Daycare NY Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    470 feet
  2. Per Scholas Trade or language school
    480 feet
  3. Beginning With Children Charter School 2 School
    560 feet
Show all 9
  1. Sunny Tots Brooklyn Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    580 feet
  2. The Williamsburg Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    720 feet
  3. Bais Ruchel High School
    810 feet
  4. Talmud Torah Dnitra School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    820 feet
  5. Bnos Nitra School
    860 feet
  6. Owl Early Intervention Program Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bartlett Playground
    1,000 feet
  2. Stockton Playground
    1,040 feet
  3. De Hostos Playground
    1,120 feet
Show all 4
  1. Charlie's Place Playground
    1,120 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Pfizer Sites Development Public space
    700 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Marcy Community Center
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Green Corner Fish & Farmers Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 18 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 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flushing Avenue or Gerry Street.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.