Hancock Street & Patchen Avenue

Hancock Street and Patchen Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bethenia Baptist Church is 70 feet away, and Central Bainbridge Street Community Garden is 1,220 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Halsey St/Patchen Av, is 370 feet away for the B26, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places, 21 of them religious buildings, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
1.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
Halsey St/Patchen Av · B26
Within a walk
31 places
21 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hancock Street & Patchen Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Patchen Av, 370 feet away, for the B26.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Patchen Av B26
    370 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Jefferson Ave & Patchen Ave 19 docks in all
    390 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 52 Rochester 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
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
52 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 1899 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 18 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
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and January 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Patchen Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Patchen Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

  • 21 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon Excellence Boys Charter School NYC School
    700 feet
  2. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
  3. P.S. 005 Dr. Ronald McNair School
    1,120 feet
Show all 4
  1. Vernykidz Infant, toddler and preschool care
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Welcome Home Garden
    460 feet
  2. Patchen Community Square Garden
    490 feet
  3. P.O. Reinaldo Salgado Playground
    860 feet
Show all 6
  1. Citizens for a Better Community Garden
    950 feet
  2. Central Bainbridge Street Community Garden
    1,220 feet
  3. Halsey Ralph & Howard Community Garden
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethenia Baptist Church House of worship
    70 feet
  2. St Johns AME Church House of worship
    420 feet
  3. Nazarene Congregational United Church of Christ House of worship
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hancock Street or Patchen 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.