Hancock Street & Wilson Avenue

Hancock Street and Wilson Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Martin of Tours RC Church is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, Wilson Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1905 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
13 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Wilson Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Wilson Av/Hancock St · B60
Within a walk
12 places
6 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hancock Street & Wilson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Wilson Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Wilson Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Halsey St L
    0.5 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wilson Av/Hancock St, 90 feet away, for the B60.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wilson Av/Hancock St B60
    90 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Hancock Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Knickerbocker Ave & Hancock St 22 docks in all
    690 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 952 Wyckoff Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 342 Eldert Street Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 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 December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 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 1920.

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
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2018 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hancock Street

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

South side of Hancock Street

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

East side of Wilson Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Wilson Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Kreative Kare Day Care Center Preschool · Pre-K
    460 feet
  2. P.S. 106 Edward Everett Hale School
    700 feet
  3. Bushwick Ascend Charter School
    910 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 151 Lyndon B. Johnson School
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Irving Square Park
    310 feet
  2. Irving Square Park Playground
    900 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity United Presbyterian Church House of worship
    230 feet
  2. St Martin of Tours RC Church House of worship
    740 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Wilson 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.