Fulton Street & Williams Avenue

Fulton Street and Williams Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Callahan-Kelly Playground is 990 feet away. The nearest subway, Alabama Av, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 70 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1905 and 1921, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Fulton Street & Williams Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Alabama Av, 270 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Alabama Av J, Z
    270 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Atlantic Av L
    920 feet
    L
  2. Broadway Junction A, C, J, L, Z
    1,110 feet
    A C J L Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Untitled” (2007) by Scott Redden at the Alabama Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/Herkimer St, 120 feet away, for the B83 and Q56.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/Herkimer St B83, Q56
    120 feet
    B83 Q56

Next buses at this stop

  1. B83 …
  2. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fulton St & Williams Ave 21 docks in all
    30 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 32 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    980 feet
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 70 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1921.

Trees

NYC Parks records 21 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and March 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Fulton Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Fulton Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Williams Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Callahan-Kelly Playground
    990 feet

Health care

  1. Bushwick Center for Rehabilitation and Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Calvary Church House of worship
    820 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. East New York Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and two 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:

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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.