Flushing Avenue & Humboldt Street

Flushing Avenue and Humboldt Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (West), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Bushwick development. Between 2021 and 2025, 55 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Ohel Chaya is 150 feet away, and Nos Cuidamos Community Garden is 1,030 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 28 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 45 places to eat.

Safety record
24 hurt
55 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
390 feet · 1 min on foot · J, M
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Flushing Av/Humboldt St · B57
Within a walk
28 places
7 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flushing Avenue & Humboldt Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 390 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av J, M
    390 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
    0.4 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/Humboldt St, 130 feet away, for the B57.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Humboldt St B57
    130 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 82 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beaver St & Fayette St 30 docks in all
    400 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 7 Marcus Garvey Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    470 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 55 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 24 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 8 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
83 and 90 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (West)
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are 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 102 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 52 signs on these blocks
  • 19 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and July 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 2AM-5AM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 2AM-5AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Humboldt Street

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 7 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 28 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 community centers
  • 10 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ohel Chaya School
    150 feet
  2. Congregation Luminous Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    180 feet
  3. Luminous Bushwick Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    180 feet
Show all 7
  1. Boricua College - Brooklyn College
    760 feet
  2. P.S. 257 John F. Hylan School
    880 feet
  3. P.S. 120 Carlos Tapia School
    930 feet
  4. Brooklyn Kindergarten Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bushwick Playground
    220 feet
  2. Garden Playground
    470 feet
  3. Bushwick Garden - Bushwick Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    860 feet
Show all 6
  1. Nos Cuidamos Community Garden
    1,030 feet
  2. Love Garden - Sumner Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,080 feet
  3. Beaver Noll Park
    1,260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Humboldt Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    940 feet

Health care

  1. Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center Hospital
    800 feet
  2. EMS Station 57 Ambulance station
    890 feet

Houses of worship

  1. All Saints RC Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Metropolitan Post Office Listed historic place
    380 feet
  2. Bushwick Pool Swimming pool
    550 feet
  3. Bushwick/Hylan Community Center
    890 feet
Show all 5
  1. Older adult center at 862 Park Avenue Older adult center
    1,310 feet
  2. Sumner Community Center
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    710 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    790 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Green Corner Fish & Farmers Market Supermarket
    80 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    450 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 45 places to eat and 27 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Flushing Avenue, Humboldt Street or Sumner Place.

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.