Liberty Avenue & Sheffield Avenue

Liberty Avenue and Sheffield Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. East New York Workforce1 Career Center is 630 feet away, and Bushwick Center for Rehabilitation and Health Care is 890 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about a minute on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
240 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Liberty Av · B20, B83
Within a walk
16 places
10 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Liberty Avenue & Sheffield Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 240 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av C
    240 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Alabama Av J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z
  2. Atlantic Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Liberty Av, 390 feet away, for the B20 and B83.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Liberty Av B20, B83
    390 feet
    B20 B83

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Georgia Ave & Liberty Ave 12 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

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
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 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 1925.

Since 2014 at least 100 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and March 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Liberty Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Sheffield Avenue

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

West side of Sheffield Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    700 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Williams Avenue Community Garden
    980 feet
  2. TLC Sculpture Park Garden
    1,260 feet

Health care

  1. Bushwick Center for Rehabilitation and Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    890 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    810 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. East New York Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    630 feet
  2. East New York Post Office
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Liberty Avenue or Sheffield 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.