Greene Avenue & Stuyvesant Avenue

Greene Avenue and Stuyvesant Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Antioch Baptist Church, Church House stands 470 feet away, and Stuyvesant Gardens I Community Center is 1,050 feet away. The nearest subway, Kosciuszko St, is about nine minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kosciuszko St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Lafayette Av/Stuyvesant Av · B38
Within a walk
27 places
11 religious buildings, 11 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Greene Avenue & Stuyvesant Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kosciuszko St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kosciuszko St J
    0.4 miles
    J

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle Av J, M, Z
    0.5 miles
    J M Z

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lafayette Av/Stuyvesant Av, 630 feet away, for the B38.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lafayette Av/Stuyvesant Av B38
    630 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lexington Ave & Stuyvesant Ave 20 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 2.2 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
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

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

North side of Greene Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Greene Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

East side of Stuyvesant Avenue

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

West side of Stuyvesant Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Queen Anne. They were built between 1887 and 1893.

  1. Antioch Baptist Church, Church House Designated landmark
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 11 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School
    460 feet
  2. The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance School
    460 feet
  3. Whitelaw Reid Academy of Arts and Business School
    460 feet
Show all 11
  1. La Cima Charter School
    1,080 feet
  2. M.S. 267 Math, Science & Technology School
    1,080 feet
  3. Uncommon Bed-Stuy East Charter School NYC School
    1,080 feet
  4. P.S. 081 Thaddeus Stevens School
    1,140 feet
  5. Madiba Prep Middle School
    1,270 feet
  6. P.S. 026 Jesse Owens School
    1,270 feet
  7. Ember Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation School
    1,280 feet
  8. P.S. 308 Clara Cardwell School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jesse Owens Playground
    200 feet
  2. Bedford Stuyvesant Community Garden (Lola Bryant Comm. Garden) Garden
    940 feet
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt Playground
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stuyvesant Gardens I Listed historic place
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Antioch Baptist Church Landmark
    420 feet
  2. Refuge Church of God House of worship
    900 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Stuyvesant Gardens I Community Center
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Greene Avenue or Stuyvesant 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.