Kosciuszko Street & Malcolm X Boulevard

Kosciuszko Street and Malcolm X Boulevard meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jesse Owens Playground is 610 feet away. The nearest subway, Kosciuszko St, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kosciuszko St
830 feet · 3 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Malcolm X Blvd/De Kalb Av · B46 SBS
Within a walk
22 places
10 religious buildings, 7 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kosciuszko Street & Malcolm X Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kosciuszko St, 830 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kosciuszko St J
    830 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle Av J, M, Z
    0.4 miles
    J M Z
  2. Central Av M
    0.5 miles
    M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Euphorbias” (2002) by Ronald Calloway at the Kosciuszko St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Malcolm X Blvd/De Kalb Av, 70 feet away, for the B46 SBS.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Malcolm X Blvd/De Kalb Av B46 SBS
    70 feet
    B46 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Malcolm X Blvd & DeKalb Ave 20 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    450 feet
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 20 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the littleleaf linden.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Madiba Prep Middle School
    640 feet
  2. P.S. 026 Jesse Owens School
    640 feet
  3. Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School
    1,090 feet
Show all 7
  1. The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance School
    1,090 feet
  2. Whitelaw Reid Academy of Arts and Business School
    1,090 feet
  3. Ebc High School for Public Service - Bushwick School
    1,100 feet
  4. P.S. 081 Thaddeus Stevens School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lafayette Playground
    270 feet
  2. Jesse Owens Playground
    610 feet
  3. Bedford Stuyvesant Community Garden (Lola Bryant Comm. Garden) Garden
    930 feet
Show all 4
  1. Eleanor Roosevelt Playground
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dekalb Library
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Rugged Cross Baptist Church Listed historic place
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    920 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kosciuszko Street or Malcolm X Boulevard.

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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.