Loring Avenue & Drew Street

Loring Avenue and Drew Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn-Queens Nursing Home is 1,010 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Loring Av/Drew St, is 120 feet away for the B14 and B15, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and one place to eat.

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Loring Avenue & Drew Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Loring Av/Drew St, 120 feet away, for the B14 and B15.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Loring Av/Drew St B14, B15
    120 feet
    B14 B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …
  2. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Loring Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Cross Bay Boulevard, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 640 Conduit Boulevard Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    780 feet

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, April 2022
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-City Line
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,500 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 1988 and 2021.

Since 2014 at least 316 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

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

East side of Drew Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Drew Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Loring Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Loring Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 10AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pink Playground
    1,100 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn-Queens Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    940 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, 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.