Hancock Street & Irving Avenue

Hancock Street and Irving Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Martin of Tours RC Church is 890 feet away, and the Brooklyn School for Math and Research is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, six of them schools, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Halsey St/Irving Av · B26
Within a walk
14 places
6 schools, 5 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hancock Street & Irving Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St L
    1,160 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.4 miles
    L M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Irving Av, 610 feet away, for the B26.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Irving Av B26
    610 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Hancock Street and Irving Avenue.

  • 22 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Irving Ave & Halsey St 19 docks in all
    500 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 952 Wyckoff Avenue Gas station
    1,180 feet
  2. 391 Weirfield Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    750 feet
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11237
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
64 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1914.

Since 2014 at least 38 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 82 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
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and September 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hancock Street

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

South side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Irving Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Irving Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Bushwick Ascend Charter School
    960 feet
  2. P.S. 151 Lyndon B. Johnson School
    1,020 feet
  3. Academy for Excellence in Leadership School
    1,290 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Academy of Urban Planning and Engineering School
    1,290 feet
  2. The Brooklyn School for Math and Research School
    1,290 feet
  3. The Brooklyn School for Social Justice School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Irving Square Park
    1,030 feet
  2. Irving Square Park Playground
    1,110 feet
  3. Bushwick Playground
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Martin of Tours RC Church House of worship
    890 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Hancock Street or Irving Avenue.

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