Leonard Street & Nassau Avenue

Leonard Street and Nassau Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The sculpture “Father Jerzy Popieluszko Monument” is 740 feet away, and Banker's Anchor Plaza is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, Nassau Av, is about a minute on foot, for the G. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 87 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Nassau Avenue, all day.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nassau Av
250 feet · 1 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Nassau Av/Manhattan Av · B48
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Leonard Street & Nassau Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nassau Av, 250 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. Nassau Av G
    250 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nassau Av/Manhattan Av, 110 feet away, for the B48.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nassau Av/Manhattan Av B48
    110 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Nassau Avenue carries a bus lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Leonard Street and Nassau Avenue.

  • 106 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Leonard St & Nassau Ave 36 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Meeker Avenue & Graham Avenue at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 176 McGuinness Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 33 Norman Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 260 South 4th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 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 March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11222
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Greenpoint
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 29 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2020 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Leonard Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Leonard Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Nassau Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Nassau Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in McCarren Park.

  1. Father Jerzy Popieluszko Monument Sculpture by Stanislaw Lutostanski, 1990
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. ABC Child Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    110 feet
  2. Atelier de la casa Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    490 feet
  3. P.S. 034 Oliver H. Perry School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McCarren Park
    590 feet
  2. Ericsson Playground
    1,180 feet
  3. Vincent V Abate Playground
    1,190 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Banker's Anchor Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center Library
    800 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 87 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Leonard Street or Nassau 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.