Hemlock Street & Etna Street

Hemlock Street and Etna Street meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 007 Abraham Lincoln is 950 feet away, and Universal Church is 1,270 feet away. The nearest subway, Cypress Hills, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cypress Hills
1,270 feet · 5 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
Crescent St/Etna St · B13
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings and 3 schools, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hemlock Street & Etna Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cypress Hills, 1,270 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cypress Hills J
    1,270 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Crescent St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Five Points of Observation” (1990) by Kathleen McCarthy at the Cypress Hills station.

Bus

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

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2020

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
37 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2015 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Etna Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Etna Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Hemlock Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Hemlock Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 007 Abraham Lincoln School
    950 feet
  2. Highland Park Community School
    1,180 feet
  3. I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln School
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. East New York Baptist Church House of worship
    1,240 feet
  2. Universal Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Etna Street or Hemlock Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.