Knickerbocker Avenue & Cornelia Street

Knickerbocker Avenue and Cornelia Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 106 Edward Everett Hale is 690 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about nine minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
770 feet
Wilson Av/Cornelia St · B60
Within a walk
19 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Knickerbocker Avenue & Cornelia Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St L
    0.5 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
    0.5 miles
    L M
  2. Knickerbocker Av M
    0.5 miles
    M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wilson Av/Cornelia St, 770 feet away, for the B60.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wilson Av/Cornelia St B60
    770 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Cornelia Street and Knickerbocker Avenue.

  • 40 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Putnam Ave & Knickerbocker Ave 29 docks in all
    400 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 952 Wyckoff Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 391 Weirfield Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
58 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, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1915.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cornelia Street

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

South side of Cornelia Street

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

East side of Knickerbocker Avenue

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

West side of Knickerbocker Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 fire station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 106 Edward Everett Hale School
    690 feet
  2. Kreative Kare Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  3. Bushwick Ascend Charter School
    760 feet
Show all 7
  1. P.S. 151 Lyndon B. Johnson School
    940 feet
  2. Aim High - New Life Child Devel School
    940 feet
  3. The New Life Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  4. Bushwick United Early Learn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bushwick Playground
    390 feet
  2. Borinquen Community Garden
    630 feet
  3. Irving Square Park
    830 feet
Show all 4
  1. Irving Square Park Playground
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Martin of Tours RC Church House of worship
    680 feet
  2. Trinity United Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 277/Ladder 112 Fire station
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 13 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cornelia Street or Knickerbocker 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.