Jamaica Avenue & Jerome Street

Jamaica Avenue and Jerome Street meet at a three-way junction 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. St Josephs Anglican Church Trinity Church East NY is 980 feet away. The nearest subway, Cleveland St, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & Jerome Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cleveland St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cleveland St J
    0.4 miles
    J

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Van Siclen Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

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/Jerome St, 60 feet away, for the Q56.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 596 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 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.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2019

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
58 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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 1910 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the eastern redcedar.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in April 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Jamaica Avenue

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

West side of Jerome Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

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
    220 feet
  2. Highland Park Community Garden
    310 feet
  3. Lower Highland Playground
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Arlington Library
    980 feet

Houses of worship

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

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Jamaica Avenue or Jerome Street.

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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.