Graham Avenue & Scholes Street

Graham Avenue and Scholes Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 90 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Williamsburg Houses, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 170 feet away. The nearest subway, Montrose Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 43 places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Montrose Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Graham Av/Scholes St · B43
Within a walk
23 places
11 religious buildings, 7 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Graham Avenue & Scholes Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Montrose Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Montrose Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Grand St L
    0.4 miles
    L
  2. Graham Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Graham Av/Scholes St, 110 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Graham Av/Scholes St B43
    110 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Scholes Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Scholes St & Manhattan Ave 36 docks in all
    410 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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 451 Lorimer Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 444 Graham Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 90 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,776th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 63 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Williamsburg
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1938.

Since 2014 at least 48 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Graham Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM

West side of Graham Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Scholes Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Scholes Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 300827, 314196 and 329012.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 14 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Modern. They were mostly built between 1935 and 1938.

  1. Williamsburg Houses Designated landmark
    170 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Colony-South Brooklyn Houses Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · listed historic place
    310 feet
  2. Brooklyn Latin School, The School
    640 feet
  3. Lyons Community School
    640 feet
Show all 8
  1. The Williamsburg High School of Art and Technology School
    640 feet
  2. Brownsville Collegiate Charter School
    740 feet
  3. M.S. 582 School
    1,200 feet
  4. P.S. 196 Ten Eyck School
    1,200 feet
  5. P.S. 250 George H. Lindsay School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Martinez Playground
    220 feet
  2. Scholes Street Children’s Garden
    250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Most Holy Trinity Church St Mary House of worship
    710 feet
  2. St John Evangelist Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    1,090 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 202 Graham Avenue Older adult center
    250 feet
  2. Williamsburg Community Center
    290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Beyond Natural Market Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,300 feet
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 43 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Graham Avenue or Scholes Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.