Hegeman Avenue & Bradford Street

Hegeman Avenue and Bradford Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Bishop Willie B. McNeil Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 36 is 560 feet away. The nearest subway, Van Siclen Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Van Siclen Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
Van Siclen Av/Hegeman Av · B83
Within a walk
10 places
5 religious buildings, 3 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hegeman Avenue & Bradford Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Van Siclen Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Van Siclen Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Urban Garden Rail” (2017) by Saya Woolfalk at the Van Siclen Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Van Siclen Av/Hegeman Av, 580 feet away, for the B83.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Van Siclen Av/Hegeman Av B83
    580 feet
    B83

Next buses at this stop

  1. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hegeman Ave & Vermont St 14 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1939 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Bishop Willie B. McNeil Corner, a co-naming enacted on June 14, 2007 (Local Law 28 of 2007).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Bishop Willie B. McNeil Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and December 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bradford Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Bradford Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Hegeman Avenue

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

South side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 36 School
    560 feet
  2. East New York Family Academy School
    720 feet
  3. P.S. 213 New Lots School
    810 feet
Show all 4
  1. Strawberry Patch Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linden Park
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and nine 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 nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bradford Street or Hegeman Avenue.

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