Hancock Street & Tompkins Avenue

Hancock Street and Tompkins Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Hancock Community Backyard Garden Park is 240 feet away, and Feeding Tree Garden is 1,040 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Halsey St/Tompkins Av · B26
Within a walk
18 places
7 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hancock 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 seven 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
    0.5 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Tompkins Av, 380 feet away, for the B26.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Tompkins Avenue.

  • 15 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
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1381 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 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
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 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, September 2017

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
45 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 79 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 October 2022 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hancock Street

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

South side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-3PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

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, 183 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1883 and 1890.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. K140 School
    940 feet
  2. Uncommon Bed-Stuy West Charter School NYC School
    940 feet
  3. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. Academy of Arts and Letters School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hancock Community Backyard Garden Park Garden
    240 feet
  2. Potomac Playground
    320 feet
  3. Feeding Tree Garden
    1,040 feet
Show all 5
  1. Garden of Hope Garden
    1,040 feet
  2. Shiloh Garden
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Stuyvesant Heights Christian Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · landmark
    740 feet
  2. First AME Zion Methodist Church House of worship
    890 feet
  3. Siloam Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation House of worship
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    90 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hancock Street or Tompkins Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.