Herkimer Street & Rockaway Avenue

Herkimer Street and Rockaway Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S./ I.S. 155 Nicholas Herkimer is 620 feet away, and Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School (Bees) is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
360 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Rockaway Av/Atlantic Av · B60
Within a walk
19 places
9 religious buildings, 4 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Herkimer Street & Rockaway Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 360 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av C
    360 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z
  2. Broadway Junction A, C, J, L, Z
    0.4 miles
    A C J L Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Av/Atlantic Av, 320 feet away, for the B60.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Atlantic Av B60
    320 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 28 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Somers St & Rockaway Ave 20 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2111 Monaco Place Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  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.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2016
  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
37 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
99 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1925.

Since 2014 at least 29 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Herkimer Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Herkimer Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 playgrounds

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./ I.S. 155 Nicholas Herkimer School
    620 feet
  2. Imagine Me Leadership Charter School
    1,190 feet
  3. Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School (Bees) School
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Phoenix Community Garden
    390 feet
  2. 45 Somers Street Community Garden
    650 feet
  3. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) Garden
    940 feet
Show all 6
  1. Fish Playground
    990 feet
  2. Ocean Hill Playground
    1,150 feet
  3. Callahan-Kelly Playground
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Hope Pentecostal Church House of worship
    610 feet
  2. International Revival Tabernacle House of worship
    1,120 feet
  3. St Matthew FBH Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Herkimer Street or Rockaway Avenue.

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