Grove Street & St Nicholas Avenue

Grove Street and St Nicholas Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Brigid Catholic Academy is 100 feet away, and Venditti Square Plaza is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs, is about five minutes on foot, for the L and M. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 47 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs
1,190 feet · 5 min on foot · L, M
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Gates Av/Saint Nicholas Av · B13
Within a walk
15 places
5 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Grove Street & St Nicholas Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs, 1,190 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    1,190 feet
    L M

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …
Inbound
1 line
  1. M …
Middle Village
1 line
  1. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Seneca Av M
    0.3 miles
    M
  2. DeKalb Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “From Earth to Sky” (2006) by Cadence Giersbach at the Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gates Av/Saint Nicholas Av, 540 feet away, for the B13.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Saint Nicholas Av B13
    540 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Menahan St & Wyckoff Ave 20 docks in all
    830 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1517 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    1,130 feet
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more 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 March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11237
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
34 and 37 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
83 and 104 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (West)
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1931.

Since 2014 at least 33 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2019 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Grove Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Grove Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. St Brigid Catholic Academy School
    100 feet
  2. New Life Child Development Center 3 Pre-K
    300 feet
  3. New Life Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    340 feet
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  1. New Life Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    340 feet
  2. Kid's Canvas Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    900 feet
  3. P.S. 81q Jean Paul Richter School
    970 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Venditti Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,140 feet
  2. Wyckoff Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cypress Avenue West Historic District Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Brigids RC Church House of worship
    260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Wyckoff Community Center
    1,070 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    640 feet
  2. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 47 places to eat and 25 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Grove Street or St Nicholas 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.