Liberty Avenue & Hinsdale Street

Liberty Avenue and Hinsdale Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Trey Whitfield School is 580 feet away. The nearest subway, Atlantic Av, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, eight of them religious buildings. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
8 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Atlantic Av
950 feet · 4 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Liberty Av/Snediker Av · T426
Within a walk
13 places
8 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Liberty Avenue & Hinsdale Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Atlantic Av, 950 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av L
    950 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Liberty Av C
    1,280 feet
    C
  2. Alabama Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Liberty Av/Snediker Av, 320 feet away, for the T426.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. T426 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Hinsdale Street and Liberty Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hinsdale St & Glenmore Ave 12 docks in all
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
54 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 161 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hinsdale Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

West side of Hinsdale Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

North side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

South side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Trey Whitfield School
    580 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Williams Avenue Community Garden
    290 feet
  2. TLC Sculpture Park Garden
    460 feet
  3. McLeod Community Garden
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. Houston Playground
    1,300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hinsdale Street 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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.