MacDonough Street & Howard Avenue

MacDonough Street and Howard Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Westminster Bethany Presbyterian Church is 90 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about seven minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Halsey St/Howard Av · B26
Within a walk
11 places
6 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
MacDonough Street & Howard Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St J
    0.4 miles
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Ralph Av C
    0.4 miles
    C
  2. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “SOL'SCRYPTT” (2008) by SOL'SAX at the Halsey St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Howard Av, 630 feet away, for the B26.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Howard Av B26
    630 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Macon St & Howard Ave 20 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 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.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
41
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in July 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of MacDonough Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of MacDonough Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Saratoga Square Park.

  1. Saratoga Park Memorial Sculpture by James S.J. Novelli and Anatoly Mikhailov, 1921
    600 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Stuyvesant Heights Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    90 feet
  2. P.S. 005 Dr. Ronald McNair School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Saratoga Park
    320 feet
  2. Saratoga Park Playground
    480 feet
  3. Halsey Ralph & Howard Community Garden
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Westminster Bethany Presbyterian Church House of worship
    90 feet
  2. New Journey Church of Brooklyn House of worship
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and ten food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Howard Avenue or MacDonough Street.

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