Livonia Avenue & Mother Gaston Boulevard

Livonia Avenue and Mother Gaston Boulevard meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Van Dyke I development. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nehemiah Park is 60 feet away, and P.S. 184 Newport is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, Junius St, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, four of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Junius St
580 feet · 2 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
Riverdale Av/Mother Gaston Blvd · B99
Within a walk
21 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Livonia Avenue & Mother Gaston Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Junius St, 580 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Junius St 3
    580 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Rockaway Av 3
    1,100 feet
    3
  2. Livonia Av L
    1,290 feet
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Paroles Vagabondes/Wisdom Along the Way” (2017) by Béatrice Lebreton at the Junius St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverdale Av/Mother Gaston Blvd, 590 feet away, for the B99.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverdale Av/Mother Gaston Blvd B99
    590 feet
    B99

Next buses at this stop

  1. B99 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Mother Gaston Boulevard.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Livonia Ave & Mother Gaston Blvd 18 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.4 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
    1.4 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1954 and 1978.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Van Dyke I development.

Since 2014 at least 426 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Livonia Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Livonia Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Mother Gaston Boulevard

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Mother Gaston Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Jacobean Revival, and built between 1913 and 1914.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.A.L./W.O.C.E. Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    640 feet
  2. Kids-Centric, Inc Pal World Creative School
    720 feet
  3. The Friends of Crown Height Educational Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    920 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Salvation Army Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
  2. P.S. 184 Newport School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Nehemiah Park
    60 feet
  2. Van Dyke Playground
    560 feet
  3. Floyd Patterson Ballfields Park
    620 feet
Show all 7
  1. Nehemiah Park Playground
    650 feet
  2. Livonia Park
    830 feet
  3. Powell Street Garden
    840 feet
  4. Newport Playground
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stone Avenue Library Landmark
    580 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Mercy Church House of worship
    380 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Brownsville House of worship
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Tilden Community Center
    290 feet
  2. Older adult center at 630 Mother Gaston Boulevard Older adult center
    290 feet
  3. Older adult center at 528 Mother Gaston Boulevard Older adult center
    1,150 feet

Fire and police

  1. Van Dyke I Police station
    650 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

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

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Livonia Avenue or Mother Gaston Boulevard.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.