MacDonough Street & Stuyvesant Avenue

MacDonough Street and Stuyvesant Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Hon. Dr. Albert Vann Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. El Shabazz Playground is 310 feet away. The nearest subway, Utica Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Utica Av
1,300 feet · 5 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Halsey St/Stuyvesant Av · B26
Within a walk
21 places
7 schools, 6 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
MacDonough Street & Stuyvesant Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Utica Av, 1,300 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Utica Av A, C
    1,300 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Children's Cathedral” (1996) by Jimmy James Greene at the Utica Av station.

Bus

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

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. MacDonough St & Malcolm X Blvd 20 docks in all
    770 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1802 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 419 Stuyvesant Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1,000 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    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.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2026
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
63 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Hon. Dr. Albert Vann Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1885 and 1898.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Hon. Dr. Albert Vann Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 4 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 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of MacDonough Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Stuyvesant Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 647 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1884 and 1896.

  1. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd Parish House & Sun. School Designated landmark
    450 feet
  2. Embury Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    730 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 7 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ember Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation School
    780 feet
  2. P.S. 262 El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Elementary School Landmark
    780 feet
  3. Community Parents Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
Show all 8
  1. Brooklyn Brownstone School
    1,180 feet
  2. M.S. 035 Stephen Decatur School
    1,180 feet
  3. Boys and Girls High School
    1,280 feet
  4. Nelson Mandela High School
    1,280 feet
  5. Research and Service High School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. El Shabazz Playground
    310 feet
  2. Fulton Park
    860 feet
  3. Elizabeth Stroud Playground
    950 feet
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  1. Robert Fulton Statue in Fulton Park Park feature
    1,080 feet
  2. 462 Halsey Community Farm Garden
    1,280 feet
  3. Decatur Playground
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Macon Library
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Philips Episcopal Anglican Church Landmark
    410 feet
  2. Mount Lebanon Baptist Church Landmark
    1,020 feet
  3. Holy Rosary RC Church House of worship
    1,020 feet
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  1. Bridge Street AME Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along MacDonough Street or Stuyvesant Avenue.

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