Jamaica Avenue & Warwick Street

Jamaica Avenue and Warwick Street meet at a three-way junction in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, at the edge of Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South). Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The statue “Dawn of Glory” is 570 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 seven public places, three of them religious buildings.

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

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & Warwick 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 seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cleveland St J
    0.3 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
    0.5 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/Warwick St, 40 feet away, for the Q56.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 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
    810 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
    0.4 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 eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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; the corner is on the edge of the Highland Park-Cypress Hills Cemeteries (South) area
Elevation
56 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 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

South side of Jamaica Avenue

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

East side of Warwick Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Warwick Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

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
    570 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highland Park
    50 feet
  2. Highland Park Community Garden
    50 feet
  3. Lower Highland Playground
    670 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Arlington Library
    820 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Reformation Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    940 feet
  2. St Josephs Anglican Church Trinity Church East NY House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Jamaica Avenue or Warwick Street.

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.