Fulton Street & Essex Street

Fulton Street and Essex Street meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Essex Street Community Garden is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Cleveland St, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cleveland St
840 feet · 3 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
750 feet
Atlantic Av/Essex St · Q24
Within a walk
16 places
9 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Fulton Street & Essex Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cleveland St, 840 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cleveland St J
    840 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Norwood Av J, Z
    1,160 feet
    J Z
  2. Shepherd Av C
    0.5 miles
    C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Las Flores” (2007) by Amy Cheng at the Cleveland St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Atlantic Av/Essex St, 750 feet away, for the Q24.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av/Essex St Q24
    750 feet
    Q24

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Shepherd Ave & Fulton St 12 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3170 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
40 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and November 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Essex Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Essex Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Fulton Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Fulton Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-6PM ALL DAYS

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Romanesque Revival, and built in 1895.

  1. Public School 108 Designated landmark
    500 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 108 Sal Abbracciamento School
    640 feet
  2. Followers of Jesus School
    930 feet
  3. East Brooklyn Ascend Charter School
    1,090 feet
Show all 4
  1. Saint Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Essex Street Community Garden
    50 feet
  2. Sperandeo Brothers Playground
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Substation #401 (BMT) Listed historic place
    130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    920 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Essex Street or Fulton 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.