Liberty Avenue & Georgia Avenue

Liberty Avenue and Georgia Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School is 950 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about two minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
490 feet · 2 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Liberty Av · B20, B83
Within a walk
17 places
10 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Liberty Avenue & Georgia Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 490 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av C
    490 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
    1,180 feet
    J Z
  2. Atlantic Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Liberty Av, 640 feet away, for the B20 and B83.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Liberty Av B20, B83
    640 feet
    B20 B83

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Georgia Ave & Liberty Ave 12 docks in all
    40 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
    1,280 feet
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

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
52 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 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.

Since 2014 at least 100 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2016 and January 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Georgia Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Georgia Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

South side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    950 feet
  2. Trey Whitfield School
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Williams Avenue Community Garden
    720 feet
  2. TLC Sculpture Park Garden
    1,010 feet

Health care

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

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,060 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. East New York Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    880 feet
  2. East New York Post Office
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and five 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 Georgia 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.