Macon Street & Patchen Avenue

Macon Street and Patchen Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Uncommon Excellence Boys Charter School NYC is 160 feet away, and Patchen Community Square Garden is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, Utica Av, is about ten minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, 17 of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Utica Av
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Halsey St/Patchen Av · B26
Within a walk
27 places
17 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Macon Street & Patchen Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Utica Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Utica Av A, C
    0.5 miles
    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/Patchen Av, 360 feet away, for the B26.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Patchen Av B26
    360 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Macon St & Patchen Ave 19 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 52 Rochester Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 419 Stuyvesant Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
53 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 1910.

Since 2014 at least 9 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and January 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Macon Street

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

South side of Macon Street

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

East side of Patchen Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Patchen Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon Excellence Boys Charter School NYC School
    160 feet
  2. Ember Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation School
    1,130 feet
  3. P.S. 262 El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Elementary School
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Welcome Home Garden
    600 feet
  2. Central Bainbridge Street Community Garden
    680 feet
  3. Bed-Stuy Farm Garden
    810 feet
Show all 6
  1. Patchen Community Square Garden
    1,030 feet
  2. Halsey Ralph & Howard Community Garden
    1,090 feet
  3. El Shabazz Playground
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Immanuel Congregational Church Listed historic place
    800 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Johns AME Church House of worship
    340 feet
  2. Nazarene Congregational United Church of Christ House of worship
    340 feet
  3. Bethenia Baptist Church House of worship
    490 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Macon Street or Patchen 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.