MacDonough Street & Tompkins Avenue

MacDonough Street and Tompkins Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Stuyvesant Heights Christian Church is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 31 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
990 feet · 4 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Tompkins Av/Fulton St · B43
Within a walk
19 places
7 religious buildings, 3 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
MacDonough Street & Tompkins Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston-Throop Avs, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    990 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Tompkins Av/Fulton St, 330 feet away, for the B43.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tompkins Av/Fulton St B43 · Shelter
    330 feet
    B43
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Tompkins Avenue.

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Halsey St & Tompkins Ave 21 docks in all
    610 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1381 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    1,240 feet
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1925.

Since 2014 at least 63 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and January 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of MacDonough Street

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

South side of MacDonough Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 133 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1884 and 1890.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 college
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. K140 School
    940 feet
  2. Uncommon Bed-Stuy West Charter School NYC School
    940 feet
  3. Coll of New Rochelle Brooklyn Campus College
    1,100 feet
Show all 6
  1. Honablue Institute of Audio Engineer Trade or language school
    1,100 feet
  2. Cm'S First Step Training Ctr Trade or language school
    1,130 feet
  3. Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Potomac Playground
    310 feet
  2. Hancock Community Backyard Garden Park Garden
    780 feet
  3. St. Andrew's Playground
    1,150 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Marcy Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    870 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Stuyvesant Heights Christian Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · landmark
    110 feet
  2. First AME Zion Methodist Church Landmark
    120 feet
  3. Greater Zion Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 54 Macdonough Street Older adult center
    160 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    800 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    730 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    780 feet
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along MacDonough Street or Tompkins Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.