Halsey Street & Tompkins Avenue

Halsey Street and Tompkins Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 33 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 259 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. First AME Zion Methodist Church is 610 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 38 places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
33 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Tompkins Av/Halsey St · B43
Within a walk
16 places
7 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Halsey Street & Tompkins Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston-Throop Avs, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Tompkins Av/Halsey St, 110 feet away, for the B43.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tompkins Av/Halsey St B43 · Shelter
    110 feet
    B43
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Tompkins Avenue.

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Halsey St & Tompkins Ave 21 docks in all
    110 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 33 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 21 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 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, September 2017
  • Turn calming, July 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 259 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,533rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 143 more were issued.

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 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1891 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 103 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Halsey Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Halsey Street

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

East side of Tompkins Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Tompkins Avenue

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 205 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1884 and 1890.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. K140 School
    660 feet
  2. Uncommon Bed-Stuy West Charter School NYC School
    660 feet
  3. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Potomac Playground
    50 feet
  2. Hancock Community Backyard Garden Park Garden
    240 feet
  3. Garden of Hope Garden
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. Feeding Tree Garden
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Stuyvesant Heights Christian Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · landmark
    470 feet
  2. First AME Zion Methodist Church Landmark
    610 feet
  3. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation House of worship
    1,240 feet
Show all 4
  1. Siloam Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 54 Macdonough Street Older adult center
    700 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    240 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Halsey Street or Tompkins Avenue.

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