Liberty Avenue & Grant Avenue

Liberty Avenue and Grant Avenue meet at a three-way junction in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Cypress Hills Ascend Charter School is 1,010 feet away. The nearest subway, Grant Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1905 and 1921, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
5 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grant Av
790 feet · 3 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Grant Av/Liberty Av · Q8
Within a walk
14 places
9 religious buildings, 1 garden and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Liberty Avenue & Grant Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grant Av, 790 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Grant Av A
    790 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. A …
Queens
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. 80 St A
    0.3 miles
    A

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grant Av/Liberty Av, 40 feet away, for the Q8.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grant Av/Liberty Av Q8 · Shelter
    40 feet
    Q8
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 40 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 519 Autumn Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-City Line
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1921.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Grant Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Grant Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Liberty Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Liberty Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 320954, 320955 and 334996.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Adl Institute Trade or language school
    90 feet
  2. Cypress Hills Ascend Charter School
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. BACDYS Garden (Bangladeshi American Development and Youth Services) Garden
    990 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Liberty Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    830 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Liberty Avenue War Memorial Monument or memorial
    360 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    710 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    70 feet
  2. Golden Farms Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 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 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Grant Avenue or Liberty Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.