Greene Avenue & Cumberland Street

Greene Avenue and Cumberland Street meet at a three-way junction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Fort Greene Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Cuyler Gore Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Lafayette Av, is about a minute on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, three of them parks, and 34 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Lafayette Av
150 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Greene Av/Fulton St · B52
Within a walk
19 places
3 parks, 3 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Greene Avenue & Cumberland Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Lafayette Av, 150 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lafayette Av C
    150 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Fulton St G
    940 feet
    G
  2. Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 B D N Q R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Greene Av/Fulton St, 50 feet away, for the B52.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Greene Av/Fulton St B52 · Shelter
    50 feet
    B52
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Cumberland Street.

  • 68 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Carlton Ave & Greene Ave 25 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 625 Atlantic Avenue Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene
Elevation
80 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1936.

Since 2014 at least 104 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 134 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cumberland Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Cumberland Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Greene Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Fort Greene Historic District.

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 232 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1857 and 1865.

  1. Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church Designated landmark
    430 feet
  2. Paul Robeson Theatre Designated landmark
    430 feet
  3. Hanson Place Baptist Church Designated landmark
    510 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Npower New York Trade or language school
    540 feet
  2. Hanson Place Child Development Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  3. Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
    1,140 feet
Show all 6
  1. Dental Auxiliary Training Center Trade or language school
    1,200 feet
  2. Compass Charter School
    1,290 feet
  3. M.S. 113 Ronald Edmonds Learning Center School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cuyler Gore Park
    40 feet
  2. Cuyler Gore Park Playground
    80 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bears/Carlton Avenue Garden
    390 feet
Show all 6
  1. South Oxford Park
    890 feet
  2. South Oxford Park Playground
    1,050 feet
  3. Fowler Square
    1,060 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Fowler Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,050 feet

Health care

  1. New Carlton Rehab and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    560 feet
  2. Oxford Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    610 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Edward Big Ned Fowler Monument Monument or memorial
    1,040 feet
  2. Fort Greene Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Urban Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    890 feet
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    1,170 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 places to eat and ten 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 Cumberland Street or Greene Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.