Irving Avenue & Cooper Street

Irving Avenue and Cooper Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. /I.S. 384 Frances E. Carter is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about six minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and seven places to eat. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1906 and 1926, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
12 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Decatur St/Irving Av · B20
Within a walk
2 places
1 religious building and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Irving Avenue & Cooper Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Halsey St L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Wilson Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Decatur St/Irving Av, 360 feet away, for the B20.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Decatur St/Irving Av B20
    360 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Irving Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wyckoff Ave & Cooper Ave 19 docks in all
    720 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 58-14 Cooper Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 342 Eldert Street Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, September 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11237
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
34 and 37 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
83 and 104 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 1906 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cooper Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cooper Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of Cooper Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cooper Street

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Irving Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Irving Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. /I.S. 384 Frances E. Carter School
    1,240 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    720 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: 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 Cooper Street or Irving Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.