Kent Avenue & Wilson Street

Kent Avenue and Wilson Street meet at a four-way crossing in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jacob's Ladder Playground is 600 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Wythe Av/Ross St, is 450 feet away for the B62, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them religious buildings. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1974, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
450 feet
Wythe Av/Ross St · B62
Within a walk
7 places
3 religious buildings, 1 community center and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kent Avenue & Wilson Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wythe Av/Ross St, 450 feet away, for the B62.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wythe Av/Ross St B62 · Shelter
    450 feet
    B62
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kent Ave & Division Ave 44 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 687 Kent Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 260 South 4th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 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.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2021
  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11249
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
88 and 90 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Williamsburg
Elevation
9 feet above sea level

Homes

About 700 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 1974.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Praire Sentinal' hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kent Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Kent Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of Wilson Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Wilson Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. United Talmudical Academy 75 School
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jacob's Ladder Playground
    600 feet
  2. Roberto Clemente Ballfield Park
    1,120 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Taylor-Wythe Community Center
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Central Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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 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 Kent Avenue or Wilson 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, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.