Liberty Avenue & Powell Street

Liberty Avenue and Powell Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Houston Playground is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, Atlantic Av, is about five minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
9 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Atlantic Av
1,310 feet · 5 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
730 feet
Liberty Av/Snediker Av · T426
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 3 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Liberty Avenue & Powell Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Atlantic Av, 1,310 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av L
    1,310 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Liberty Av/Snediker Av, 730 feet away, for the T426.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. T426 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2111 Monaco Place Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 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 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 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 March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

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 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 429 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 86 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 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.

North side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

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

East side of Powell Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY

West side of Powell Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McLeod Community Garden
    160 feet
  2. Houston Playground
    260 feet
  3. Powell Playground
    570 feet
Show all 5
  1. Howard Pool Park
    1,050 feet
  2. Howard Playground
    1,080 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Liberty Avenue or Powell Street.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.