Greene Avenue & Patchen Avenue

Greene Avenue and Patchen Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Garden of Angels is 290 feet away, and Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, Kosciuszko St, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kosciuszko St
700 feet · 3 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
490 feet
Patchen Av/Lafayette Av · Q24
Within a walk
25 places
13 religious buildings, 7 gardens and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Greene Avenue & Patchen Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kosciuszko St, 700 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kosciuszko St J
    700 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Gates Av J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Euphorbias” (2002) by Ronald Calloway at the Kosciuszko St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Patchen Av/Lafayette Av, 490 feet away, for the Q24.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Patchen Av/Lafayette Av Q24
    490 feet
    Q24

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lexington Ave & Patchen Ave 18 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, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 105 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and August 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Greene Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Greene Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

East side of Patchen Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Patchen Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 7 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School
    1,240 feet
  2. Madiba Prep Middle School
    1,270 feet
  3. P.S. 026 Jesse Owens School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Patchen Avenue Garden
    170 feet
  2. Garden of Angels Garden
    290 feet
  3. The People's Garden
    680 feet
Show all 9
  1. Gates Harvest Garden
    760 feet
  2. Bedford Stuyvesant Community Garden (Lola Bryant Comm. Garden) Garden
    910 feet
  3. Citizens for a Better Community Garden
    1,130 feet
  4. Good Life Garden
    1,190 feet
  5. Lafayette Playground
    1,260 feet
  6. P.O. Reinaldo Salgado Playground
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Rugged Cross Baptist Church Listed historic place
    520 feet
  2. St Stephens & St Martins Episcopal Church House of worship
    610 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    670 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Greene Avenue or Patchen Avenue.

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