Hegeman Avenue & Bristol Street

Hegeman Avenue and Bristol Street meet at a three-way junction in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Osborn Playground is 800 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hegeman Av/Thomas S Boyland St, is 100 feet away for the B8, B15 and B35, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them schools, and four places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
2.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Hegeman Av/Thomas S Boyland St · B8, B15, B35
Within a walk
16 places
7 schools, 5 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hegeman Avenue & Bristol Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hegeman Av/Thomas S Boyland St, 100 feet away, for the B8, B15 and B35.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hegeman Av/Thomas S Boyland St B8, B15, B35
    100 feet
    B8 B15 B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …
  2. B15 …
  3. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.1 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
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 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 December 2025.

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)
Brownsville
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1962.

Since 2014 at least 21 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2021 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bristol Street

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

West side of Bristol Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Hegeman Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Democracy Academy School
    870 feet
  2. Kappa V (Knowledge and Power Preparatory Academy) School
    870 feet
  3. Metropolitan Diploma Plus High School
    870 feet
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  1. Uncommon Brownsville South Charter School NYC School
    870 feet
  2. P.S. 165 Ida Posner School
    930 feet
  3. Adaptive Solutions Multi Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,160 feet
  4. Adaptive Solutions- Hegeman School
    1,250 feet
  5. Cultural Arts Academy Charter School at Spring Creek School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Osborn Playground
    800 feet
  2. Gethsemane Garden
    1,130 feet

Health care

  1. Schulman and Schachne Institute for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Life Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    290 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, 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 Bristol 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.