Hegeman Avenue & Amboy Street

Hegeman Avenue and Amboy Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Remsen Village, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 165 Ida Posner is 660 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hegeman Av/Thomas S Boyland St, is 250 feet away for the B15 and B35, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
2.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Hegeman Av/Thomas S Boyland St · B15, B35
Within a walk
11 places
5 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hegeman Avenue & Amboy Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hegeman Av/Thomas S Boyland St, 250 feet away, for the B15 and B35.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hegeman Av/Thomas S Boyland St B15, B35 · Shelter
    250 feet
    B15 B35
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hegeman Ave & Amboy St 23 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1408 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,270 feet
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported ten 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2021
  • Turn calming, October 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
42
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Remsen Village
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1966.

Since 2014 at least 181 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Amboy Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Amboy Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

North side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 165 Ida Posner School
    660 feet
  2. Making a Difference for the Future Preschool
    1,300 feet
  3. Making a Difference Academy School
    1,300 feet
Show all 4
  1. Cultural Arts Academy Charter School at Spring Creek School
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Schulman and Schachne Institute for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    740 feet
  2. Brookdale Hospital Medical Center Hospital
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congrectional El Verbo Church House of worship
    890 feet
  2. New Life Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    820 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five 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 Amboy Street or Hegeman 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.