Lafayette Avenue & Bushwick Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Bushwick Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Purnel Chance Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 274 Kosciusko is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, Kosciuszko St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kosciuszko St
930 feet · 4 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Kossuth Pl/Bushwick Av · B38
Within a walk
15 places
9 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Bushwick Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kosciuszko St, 930 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Gates Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z
  2. Central Av M
    0.4 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 Kossuth Pl/Bushwick Av, 300 feet away, for the B38.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kossuth Pl/Bushwick Av B38
    300 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bushwick Ave & Harman St 25 docks in all
    170 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
34
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Purnel Chance Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 112 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and June 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Bushwick Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1853 and 1908.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 274 Kosciusko School
    770 feet
  2. Bushwick Leaders High School for Academic Excellence School
    950 feet
  3. Ebc High School for Public Service - Bushwick School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The People's Garden
    920 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. South Bushwick Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Complex Listed historic place
    340 feet
  2. Dekalb Library
    950 feet

Houses of worship

  1. South Bushwick Reformed Church Landmark
    200 feet
  2. Calvary & St Cyprians Church House of worship
    910 feet
  3. Sinai Christian Church House of worship
    940 feet
Show all 4
  1. Rugged Cross Baptist Church Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    930 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bushwick Avenue or Lafayette Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.