Lorimer Street & Driggs Avenue

Lorimer Street and Driggs Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 417 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Vincent V Abate Playground is 170 feet away, and A-Tech High School is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, Nassau Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 53 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nassau Av
930 feet · 4 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Lorimer St/Driggs Av · B48
Within a walk
12 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 playgrounds and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lorimer Street & Driggs Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nassau Av, 930 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nassau Av G
    930 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Bedford Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lorimer St/Driggs Av, 40 feet away, for the B48.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lorimer St/Driggs Av B48 · Shelter
    40 feet
    B48
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Driggs Avenue.

  • 57 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Driggs Ave & Lorimer St 27 docks in all
    70 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Meeker Avenue & Graham Avenue at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 112 Richardson Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 395 Leonard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 260 South 4th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 417 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,295th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 268 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11222
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Williamsburg
Elevation
10 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 22 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 223 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 56 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and October 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Driggs Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Driggs Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-6PM

South side of Driggs Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Driggs Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Lorimer Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Lorimer Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Art Moderne. They were built between 1934 and 1936.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in McCarren Park.

  1. Double Sun Mural by Mary Temple, 2016
    600 feet
  2. Father Jerzy Popieluszko Monument Sculpture by Stanislaw Lutostanski, 1990
    680 feet
  3. Bound Hands Rising Free Sculpture by Thomas Cleveland, 2000
    720 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 garden
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Atelier de la casa Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    740 feet
  2. A-Tech High School
    970 feet
  3. ABC Child Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McCarren Park
    40 feet
  2. Vincent V Abate Playground
    170 feet
  3. Ericsson Playground
    690 feet
Show all 5
  1. Dog Run in McCarren Park Dog run
    890 feet
  2. Green Dome Garden
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. McCarren Play Center Recreation center · landmark
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 53 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Driggs Avenue or Lorimer Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.