Hemlock Street & Adler Place

Hemlock Street and Adler Place meet at a three-way junction in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. East New York Baptist Church is 1,050 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about three minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them schools, and 19 places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1915, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
790 feet · 3 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
Crescent St/Ridgewood Av · B13
Within a walk
7 places
4 schools, 2 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hemlock Street & Adler Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crescent St, 790 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    790 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Cypress Hills J
    0.4 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wheel of Bloom-Soak up the Sun” (2007) by Jung Hyang Kim at the Crescent St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Crescent St/Ridgewood Av, 420 feet away, for the B13.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Crescent St/Ridgewood Av B13
    420 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 48 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 794 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
38 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,400 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 1901 and 1915.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Adler Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Adler Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Highland Park Community School
    910 feet
  2. I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln School
    910 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 17 School
    1,150 feet
Show all 5
  1. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 18 School
    1,150 feet
  2. Cypress Hills Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. East New York Baptist Church House of worship
    1,050 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    470 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    630 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    540 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Golden Farms Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 23 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 of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Adler Place or Hemlock Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.