John Warren Avenue & Schum Avenue

John Warren Avenue and Schum Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Fort Hamilton Casemate Fort stands 670 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 4 Av/100 St, is 0.3 miles away for the B16 and B37, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them parks. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1953, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
430 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
4 Av/100 St · B16, B37
Within a walk
5 places
2 parks, 1 listed historic place and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
John Warren Avenue & Schum Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 4 Av/100 St, 0.3 miles away, for the B16 and B37.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 4 Av/100 St B16, B37
    0.3 miles
    B16 B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …
  2. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 101 St & Fort Hamilton Pkwy 12 docks in all
    810 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway at Gowanus Expressway & John Warren Avenue, 430 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 579 92nd Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 221 Washington Drive Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11209
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
50
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Hamilton
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1953.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1825 and 1831.

  1. Fort Hamilton Casemate Fort Designated landmark
    670 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in John Paul Jones Park.

  1. John N. LaCorte Memorial wall by Albino Manca, 2004
    790 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 older adult center

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. John J Carty Park
    650 feet
  2. John Paul Jones Park
    790 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dover Patrol Monument Monument or memorial
    1,180 feet
  2. Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Fort Hamilton Senior Center Older adult center
    820 feet

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along John Warren Avenue or Schum Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.