Manhattan Avenue & Grand Street

Manhattan Avenue and Grand Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 018 Edward Bush is 620 feet away, and Scholes Street Children’s Garden is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand St, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 59 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Grand St/Graham Av · Q54, Q59
Within a walk
19 places
8 religious buildings, 4 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Manhattan Avenue & Grand Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand St L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Graham Av L
    0.3 miles
    L
  2. Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St G, L
    0.3 miles
    G L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Gratitudes off Grand” (2023) by Glendalys Medina at the Grand St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand St/Graham Av, 310 feet away, for the Q54 and Q59.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand St/Graham Av Q54, Q59
    310 feet
    Q54 Q59

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q54 …
  2. Q59 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Grand Street and Manhattan Avenue.

  • 69 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Graham Ave & Grand St 29 docks in all
    530 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 451 Lorimer Street Gas station
    1,200 feet
  2. 462 Keap Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11211
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Williamsburg
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1938.

Since 2014 at least 128 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2018 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Grand Street

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 2PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7AM-2PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Grand Street

  • No stopping 9 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Manhattan Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Manhattan Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 303288 and 332691.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and seven buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Modern. They were built between 1935 and 1938.

  1. Williamsburg Houses Designated landmark
    420 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 018 Edward Bush School
    620 feet
  2. St. Nicks Alliance Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    640 feet
  3. Brooklyn Latin School, The School
    800 feet
Show all 7
  1. Lyons Community School
    800 feet
  2. The Williamsburg High School of Art and Technology School
    800 feet
  3. Bushwick United Housing Dev Fund/ Bushwick United Hs/ Early Learn Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
  4. Colony-South Brooklyn Houses Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Martinez Playground
    820 feet
  2. Scholes Street Children’s Garden
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Moslem Mosque Listed historic place
    630 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Evangelist Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    910 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 211 Ainslie Street Older adult center
    640 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    550 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    230 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 59 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Grand Street or Manhattan 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.