Jamaica Avenue & Barbey Street

Jamaica Avenue and Barbey 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. Reformation Lutheran Church is 420 feet away. The nearest subway, Van Siclen Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them religious buildings, and two places to eat. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1910 and 1920, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Van Siclen Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Jamaica Av/Barbey St · Q56
Within a walk
8 places
4 religious buildings, 1 garden and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & Barbey Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Van Siclen Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Van Siclen Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Cleveland St J
    0.4 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The View From Here” (2007) by Barbara Ellmann at the Van Siclen Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/Barbey St, 110 feet away, for the Q56.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/Barbey St Q56
    110 feet
    Q56

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Arlington Ave & Warwick St 18 docks in all
    1,150 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2822 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 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 May 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
59 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, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Barbey Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

West side of Barbey Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Jamaica Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 19 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Jamaica Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highland Park
    470 feet
  2. Highland Park Community Garden
    560 feet
  3. Lower Highland Playground
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Arlington Library
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Reformation Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    420 feet
  2. St Josephs Anglican Church Trinity Church East NY House of worship
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and seven 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 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Barbey 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.