Hegeman Avenue & New Jersey Avenue

Hegeman Avenue and New Jersey Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 213 New Lots is 190 feet away. The nearest subway, Pennsylvania Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1930, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Pennsylvania Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Hegeman Av · B20
Within a walk
14 places
8 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hegeman Avenue & New Jersey Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Pennsylvania Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Hegeman Av, 360 feet away, for the B20.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hegeman Ave & Vermont St 14 docks in all
    260 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
    760 feet
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 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
17 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, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and January 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of New Jersey Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of New Jersey Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 213 New Lots School
    190 feet
  2. Collegiate Academy for Mathematics and Personal Awareness Charter School
    820 feet
  3. Strawberry Patch Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sheffield Garden
    830 feet
  2. Linden Park
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    1,210 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 12 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 Hegeman Avenue or New Jersey 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.