Knickerbocker Avenue & Eldert Street

Knickerbocker Avenue and Eldert Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Mildred Phillips Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 151 Lyndon B. Johnson is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about six minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Halsey St/Knickerbocker Av · B26
Within a walk
11 places
6 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Knickerbocker Avenue & Eldert Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  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. Wilson Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Knickerbocker Av, 350 feet away, for the B26.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Knickerbocker Av B26
    350 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Knickerbocker Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Knickerbocker Ave & Halsey St 19 docks in all
    300 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. 342 Eldert Street Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    670 feet
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Mildred Phillips Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2024 (Local Law 41 of 2024).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1906 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 8 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Mildred Phillips Way.

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 July 2017 and January 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Eldert Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Eldert Street

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

East side of Knickerbocker Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Knickerbocker Avenue

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

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 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bushwick United Early Learn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    60 feet
  2. P.S. 151 Lyndon B. Johnson School
    480 feet
  3. Bushwick Ascend Charter School
    660 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Irving Square Park
    300 feet
  2. Irving Square Park Playground
    390 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Martin of Tours RC Church House of worship
    640 feet
  2. Trinity United Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,120 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eldert 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.