Hegeman Avenue & Essex Street

Hegeman Avenue and Essex Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Melvina Headley Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Achievement First Aspire Charter School is 790 feet away, and Linden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation is 1,250 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them playgrounds, and two places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
Linden Blvd/Essex St · B20
Within a walk
8 places
2 playgrounds, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hegeman Avenue & Essex Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. New Lots Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Linden Blvd/Essex St, 690 feet away, for the B20.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Linden Blvd/Essex St B20
    690 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Warwick St & Hegeman Ave 14 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1249 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Melvina Headley Square, a co-naming enacted on July 11, 1997 (Local Law 54 of 1997).

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Melvina Headley Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and January 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Essex Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Essex Street

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

North side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    40 feet
  2. Achievement First Aspire Charter School
    790 feet
  3. P.S. 202 Ernest S. Jenkyns School
    790 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linwood Playground
    520 feet
  2. Elton Playground
    680 feet
  3. Family Community Garden Brooklyn Garden
    910 feet

Health care

  1. Linden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gabriels RC Church House of worship
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and six 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Essex 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, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.