Liberty Avenue & Sackman Street

Liberty Avenue and Sackman Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. McLeod Community Garden is 90 feet away. The nearest subway, Atlantic Av, is about six minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
3 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Atlantic Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
990 feet
Liberty Av/Snediker Av · T426
Within a walk
17 places
8 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Liberty Avenue & Sackman Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Atlantic Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Liberty Av/Snediker Av, 990 feet away, for the T426.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. T426 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 3 bicycle racks 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
    40 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. 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 ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

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 227 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 83 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2015 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Sackman Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Sackman Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Christopher Avenue Community School
    390 feet
  2. Uncommon Brownsville North Charter School NYC School
    390 feet
  3. Brownsville Collaborative Middle School
    1,280 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 298 Dr. Betty Shabazz School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McLeod Community Garden
    90 feet
  2. Houston Playground
    360 feet
  3. Powell Playground
    570 feet
Show all 5
  1. Howard Pool Park
    790 feet
  2. Howard Playground
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and ten 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 Liberty Avenue or Sackman 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.