Louisiana Avenue & Vandalia Avenue

Louisiana Avenue and Vandalia Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Spring Creek-Starrett City, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Susannah Mushatt Jones Avenue by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 52 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Fresh Creek Nature Preserve is 460 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/Louisiana Av, is 950 feet away for the B82 and B82 SBS, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places.

Safety record
9 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
Flatlands Av/Louisiana Av · B82, B82 SBS
Within a walk
3 places
1 nature area, 1 older adult center and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Louisiana Avenue & Vandalia Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/Louisiana Av, 950 feet away, for the B82 and B82 SBS.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/Louisiana Av B82, B82 SBS
    950 feet
    B82 B82 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …
  2. B82 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1121 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 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 May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 52 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,828th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Spring Creek-Starrett City
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Susannah Mushatt Jones Avenue, a co-naming enacted on June 24, 2017 (Local Law 110 of 2017).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Susannah Mushatt Jones Avenue.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Louisiana Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Vandalia Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM

South side of Vandalia Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fresh Creek Nature Preserve Nature area
    460 feet
  2. Breukelen Ballfields Park
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 47 Vandalia Avenue Older adult center
    510 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    370 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

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

Nearby corners

The nearest corners on foot, with walking distances:

See every intersection along Louisiana Avenue or Vandalia Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.