Irving Avenue & Cornelia Street

Irving Avenue and Cornelia Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Academy of Urban Planning and Engineering is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them schools, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
730 feet
Wyckoff Av/Cornelia St · B26
Within a walk
11 places
4 schools, 3 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Irving Avenue & Cornelia 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.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  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. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.3 miles
    L M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wyckoff Av/Cornelia St, 730 feet away, for the B26.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wyckoff Av/Cornelia St B26
    730 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Cornelia Street and Irving Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Putnam Ave & Knickerbocker Ave 29 docks in all
    870 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 952 Wyckoff Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 391 Weirfield Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1,280 feet
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11237
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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 1915.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

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

North side of Cornelia Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Cornelia Street

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

East side of Irving Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Irving Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Academy for Excellence in Leadership School
    770 feet
  2. The Academy of Urban Planning and Engineering School
    770 feet
  3. The Brooklyn School for Math and Research School
    770 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Brooklyn School for Social Justice School
    770 feet
  2. The New Life Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bushwick Playground
    620 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Washington Irving Library
    900 feet
  2. Cornelia-Putnam Historic District Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  2. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 15 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cornelia Street or Irving Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.