Macon Street & Verona Place

Macon Street and Verona Place meet at a three-way junction in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Bedford Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation is 350 feet away, and Potomac Playground is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
800 feet · 3 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Fulton St/New York Av · B25, B44
Within a walk
21 places
8 religious buildings, 4 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Macon Street & Verona Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 800 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    800 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.4 miles
    C
  2. Franklin Av C, S
    0.5 miles
    C S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fulton St/New York Av, 600 feet away, for the B25 and B44.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fulton St/New York Av B25, B44
    600 feet
    B25 B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …
  2. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Verona Pl & Fulton St 19 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

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
51 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1886 and 1905.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and July 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Macon Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Verona Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Verona Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Bedford Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 309 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1883 and 1889.

  1. Girls' High School Designated landmark
    490 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 college
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. K140 School
    740 feet
  2. Uncommon Bed-Stuy West Charter School NYC School
    740 feet
  3. Cm'S First Step Training Ctr Trade or language school
    920 feet
Show all 8
  1. Coll of New Rochelle Brooklyn Campus College
    1,040 feet
  2. Honablue Institute of Audio Engineer Trade or language school
    1,040 feet
  3. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet
  4. P.S. 093 William H. Prescott School
    1,220 feet
  5. Restoration Academy School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. United Herkimer Garden Club Garden
    1,040 feet
  2. Potomac Playground
    1,120 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Marcy Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    700 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Renaissance Apartments Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Zion Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    320 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation House of worship
    350 feet
  3. Pilgrim Holiness Church House of worship
    1,060 feet
Show all 6
  1. Siloam Presbyterian Church Landmark
    1,100 feet
  2. Friendship Baptist Church Listed historic place
    1,220 feet
  3. Stuyvesant Heights Christian Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    590 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    770 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    820 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,300 feet
  3. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    900 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Macon Street or Verona Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, 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.