Jefferson Avenue & Irving Avenue

Jefferson Avenue and Irving Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Academy for Excellence in Leadership is 1,030 feet away, and Washington Irving Library is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
800 feet
Wyckoff Av/Jefferson Av · B26
Within a walk
15 places
6 religious buildings, 6 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jefferson Avenue & Irving Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five 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
    0.4 miles
    L M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wyckoff Av/Jefferson Av, 800 feet away, for the B26.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wyckoff Av/Jefferson Av B26
    800 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Irving Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Irving Ave & Halsey St 19 docks in all
    750 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.1 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
    1,020 feet
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

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
62 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 1910.

Since 2014 at least 44 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Irving Avenue

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

West side of Irving Avenue

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

North side of Jefferson Avenue

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

South side of Jefferson Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Academy for Excellence in Leadership School
    1,030 feet
  2. The Academy of Urban Planning and Engineering School
    1,030 feet
  3. The Brooklyn School for Math and Research School
    1,030 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Brooklyn School for Social Justice School
    1,030 feet
  2. Bushwick Ascend Charter School
    1,220 feet
  3. P.S. 151 Lyndon B. Johnson School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bushwick Playground
    880 feet
  2. Irving Square Park
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Washington Irving Library
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Martin of Tours RC Church House of worship
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 16 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 Irving Avenue or Jefferson 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.