Halsey Street & Howard Avenue

Halsey Street and Howard Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Saratoga Park is 50 feet away, and New Madison Harvest Community Garden is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Halsey St/Howard Av · B26
Within a walk
21 places
11 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Halsey Street & Howard Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St J
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.4 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “SOL'SCRYPTT” (2008) by SOL'SAX at the Halsey St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Howard Av, 100 feet away, for the B26.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Howard Av B26
    100 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Macon St & Howard Ave 20 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.7 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
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
41
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
42 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 105 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Halsey Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Halsey Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

East side of Howard Avenue

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

West side of Howard Avenue

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

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Saratoga Square Park.

  1. Saratoga Park Memorial Sculpture by James S.J. Novelli and Anatoly Mikhailov, 1921
    450 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Stuyvesant Heights Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    610 feet
  2. P.S. 005 Dr. Ronald McNair School
    730 feet
  3. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Saratoga Park
    50 feet
  2. Saratoga Park Playground
    210 feet
  3. Halsey Ralph & Howard Community Garden
    720 feet
Show all 4
  1. New Madison Harvest Community Garden
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Westminster Bethany Presbyterian Church House of worship
    610 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Saratoga Village Community Center
    1,040 feet
  2. Older adult center at 930 Halsey Street Older adult center
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Halsey Street or Howard Avenue.

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