Kosciuszko Street & Throop Avenue

Kosciuszko Street and Throop Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Mount Pisgah Baptist Church is 920 feet away, and Heaven's Gate Community Garden (Hart Street) is 1,260 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Throop Av/Lafayette Av, is 310 feet away for the B43, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Throop Av/Lafayette Av · B43
Within a walk
21 places
9 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kosciuszko Street & Throop Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Throop Av/Lafayette Av, 310 feet away, for the B43.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Throop Av/Lafayette Av B43
    310 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Throop Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pulaski St & Throop Ave 19 docks in all
    600 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 775 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
47 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 74 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Beanstalk Child Care Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    460 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Bed Stuy 3 School
    660 feet
  3. Uta 656 School
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. United Talmudical Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,110 feet
  2. Glorious and Gifted Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hattie Carthan Herban Farm Garden
    700 feet
  2. Kosciuszko Street Garden and Learning Center Garden
    930 feet
  3. Pulaski Playground
    1,040 feet
Show all 7
  1. Herbert Von King Park
    1,110 feet
  2. Tranquility Farm Garden
    1,130 feet
  3. Heaven's Gate Community Garden (Hart Street) Garden
    1,260 feet
  4. T&T Vernon Block Community Garden
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Philips Christian Church House of worship
    210 feet
  2. Mount Pisgah Baptist Church House of worship
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    790 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kosciuszko Street or Throop Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.