Jerome Street & Arlington Avenue

Jerome Street and Arlington Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Highland Park is 920 feet away. The nearest subway, Cleveland St, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1905 and 1920, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cleveland St
1,170 feet · 4 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
710 feet
Jamaica Av/Jerome St · Q56
Within a walk
11 places
6 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jerome Street & Arlington Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cleveland St, 1,170 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cleveland St J
    1,170 feet
    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
    0.3 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, 710 feet away, for the Q56.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 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
    290 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. 2822 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 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 six crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 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
Elevation
40 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 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 1905 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Arlington Avenue

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

South side of Arlington Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Jerome Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Jerome Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 290 Juan Morel Campos School
    1,050 feet
  2. P.S. 089 Cypress Hills School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highland Park
    920 feet
  2. Highland Park Community Garden
    1,020 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Arlington Library
    370 feet

Houses of worship

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

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    710 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,220 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 15 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 Arlington Avenue or Jerome 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.