Liberty Avenue & Junius Street

Liberty Avenue and Junius Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. McLeod Community Garden is 420 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 14 public places, six of them religious buildings. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
17 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Atlantic Av
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
470 feet
Liberty Av/Snediker Av · T426
Within a walk
14 places
6 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Liberty Avenue & Junius Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Atlantic Av, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av L
    1,140 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
    0.4 miles
    C
  2. Sutter Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Liberty Av/Snediker Av, 470 feet away, for the T426.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. T426 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Liberty Ave & Sackman St 12 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
37
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 400 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the dawn redwood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Junius Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Junius Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Christopher Avenue Community School
    910 feet
  2. Uncommon Brownsville North Charter School NYC School
    910 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McLeod Community Garden
    420 feet
  2. Houston Playground
    520 feet
  3. Powell Playground
    830 feet
Show all 6
  1. Williams Avenue Community Garden
    1,070 feet
  2. TLC Sculpture Park Garden
    1,230 feet
  3. Howard Pool Park
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight 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 Junius 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.