Frost Street & Debevoise Avenue

Frost Street and Debevoise Avenue meet at a three-way junction in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Cooper Park development. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Frost Playground is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Graham Av, is about ten minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and four places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1933 and 1950, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Graham Av
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
500 feet
Kingsland Av/Richardson St · B24
Within a walk
5 places
1 community center, 1 garden and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Frost Street & Debevoise Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Graham Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. Graham Av L
    0.5 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingsland Av/Richardson St, 500 feet away, for the B24.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingsland Av/Richardson St B24
    500 feet
    B24

Next buses at this stop

  1. B24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Frost St & Debevoise Ave 22 docks in all
    140 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Meeker Avenue & Graham Avenue at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 65 Kingsland Avenue Gas station
    1,150 feet
  2. 444 Graham Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four 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 December 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11222
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Williamsburg
Elevation
35 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1933 and 1950.

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

Since 2014 at least 5 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and August 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Debevoise Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Debevoise Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Frost Street

  • Back-in parking only 6 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Parallel parking only 1 sign PARALLEL PARKING ONLY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 community center
  • 1 garden
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Frost Playground
    50 feet
  2. Red Shed Community Garden
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Cecilias Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 288 Frost Street Older adult center
    310 feet
  2. Cooper Park Community Center
    620 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    730 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and five 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Debevoise Avenue or Frost 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.