Hegeman Avenue & Shepherd Avenue

Hegeman Avenue and Shepherd Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Elton Playground is 940 feet away, and Family Community Garden Brooklyn is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Linden Blvd/Shepherd Av · B20
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 2 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hegeman Avenue & Shepherd 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 eight minutes on foot.

  1. New Lots Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Linden Blvd/Shepherd Av, 530 feet away, for the B20.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Linden Blvd/Shepherd Av B20
    530 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 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, 1.2 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 nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

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
15 feet above sea level

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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

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

East side of Shepherd Avenue

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

West side of Shepherd Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linwood Playground
    780 feet
  2. Elton Playground
    940 feet
  3. Family Community Garden Brooklyn Garden
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gabriels RC Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and four 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 Hegeman Avenue or Shepherd 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, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.