Halsey Street & Marcy Avenue

Halsey Street and Marcy Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Bedford Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 34 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,177 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. K140 is 400 feet away, and Concord Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is 1,150 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
34 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Halsey St/Marcy Av · B26
Within a walk
28 places
9 religious buildings, 5 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Halsey Street & Marcy Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.3 miles
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.4 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Marcy Av, 40 feet away, for the B26.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Marcy Av B26
    40 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. MacDonough St & Marcy Ave 22 docks in all
    530 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1381 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 34 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017
  • Turn calming, October 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,177 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 680th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 596 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on Marcy Avenue783383
Eastbound on Halsey Street394213
Total1,177596

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
47 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 1885 and 1905.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and May 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Halsey Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Halsey Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Bedford Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 426 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1883 and 1889.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. K140 School
    400 feet
  2. Uncommon Bed-Stuy West Charter School NYC School
    400 feet
  3. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    490 feet
Show all 10
  1. Cm'S First Step Training Ctr Trade or language school
    870 feet
  2. Uncommon Collegiate Charter High School
    950 feet
  3. Coll of New Rochelle Brooklyn Campus College
    990 feet
  4. Honablue Institute of Audio Engineer Trade or language school
    990 feet
  5. Brooklyn Academy High School
    1,180 feet
  6. Uncommon Collegiate CHS School
    1,180 feet
  7. Cititots Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Potomac Playground
    510 feet
  2. Hancock Community Backyard Garden Park Garden
    1,040 feet
  3. Hattie Carthan Playground
    1,290 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Marcy Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    630 feet

Health care

  1. Concord Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Boys' High School Listed historic place
    1,170 feet
  2. Renaissance Apartments Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation House of worship
    440 feet
  2. Siloam Presbyterian Church Landmark
    490 feet
  3. Greater Zion Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    880 feet
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  1. Concord Baptist Church House of worship
    920 feet
  2. Stuyvesant Heights Christian Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  3. First AME Zion Methodist Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 54 Macdonough Street Older adult center
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    710 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,190 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,240 feet
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Halsey Street or Marcy Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.