Jamaica Avenue & Ashford Street

Jamaica Avenue and Ashford Street meet at a three-way junction in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Highland Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Cleveland St, is about six minutes on foot, for the J. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them religious buildings. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1905 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cleveland St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
Jamaica Av/Cleveland St · Q56
Within a walk
7 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & Ashford Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Cleveland St J
    0.3 miles
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Las Flores” (2007) by Amy Cheng at the Cleveland St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/Cleveland St, 160 feet away, for the Q56.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/Cleveland St Q56 · Shelter
    160 feet
    Q56
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Jamaica Ave & Elton St 18 docks in all
    610 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 596 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 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 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 104 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and March 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Ashford Street

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

West side of Ashford Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Jamaica Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Highland Park.

  1. Dawn of Glory Statue by Pietro Montana, 1924
    300 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. New Age Family Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highland Park
    40 feet
  2. Highland Park Community Garden
    40 feet
  3. Lower Highland Playground
    400 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Arlington Library
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Reformation Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ashford Street or Jamaica Avenue.

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