Liberty Avenue & Alabama Avenue

Liberty Avenue and Alabama Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Trey Whitfield School is 830 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
27 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
750 feet · 3 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
840 feet
Liberty Av/Snediker Av · T426
Within a walk
13 places
7 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Liberty Avenue & Alabama Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 750 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av C
    750 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Alabama Av J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z
  2. Atlantic Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Liberty Av/Snediker Av, 840 feet away, for the T426.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av/Snediker Av T426
    840 feet
    T426

Next buses at this stop

  1. T426 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Liberty Avenue.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Georgia Ave & Liberty Ave 12 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 32 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 27 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1921.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Alabama Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Alabama Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-1PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-1PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Trey Whitfield School
    830 feet
  2. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Williams Avenue Community Garden
    460 feet
  2. TLC Sculpture Park Garden
    750 feet

Health care

  1. Bushwick Center for Rehabilitation and Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. East New York Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Alabama Avenue or Liberty 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.