Hegeman Avenue & Georgia Avenue

Hegeman Avenue and Georgia Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Georgia Avenue Community Garden is 710 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about nine minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Hegeman Av · B20
Within a walk
15 places
9 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hegeman Avenue & Georgia Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “16 Windows” (2007) by Eugenie Tung at the New Lots Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Hegeman Av, 600 feet away, for the B20.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Hegeman Av B20
    600 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sheffield Ave & Linden Blvd 12 docks in all
    670 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
    1,020 feet
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.

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
18 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 10 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of Georgia Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Georgia Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Hegeman Avenue

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

South side of Hegeman Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 213 New Lots School
    970 feet
  2. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prophecy Garden
    590 feet
  2. Sheffield Garden
    680 feet
  3. Georgia Avenue Community Garden
    710 feet
Show all 4
  1. Hands & Heart (New Lots Urban Farm) Garden
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 13 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 Georgia Avenue 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.