Manhattan Avenue & Scholes Street

Manhattan Avenue and Scholes Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Scholes Street Children’s Garden is 230 feet away. The nearest subway, Montrose Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Montrose Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Meserole St/Manhattan Av · B60
Within a walk
22 places
8 religious buildings, 6 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Manhattan Avenue & Scholes Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Montrose Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Montrose Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Grand St L
    0.5 miles
    L
  2. Lorimer St J, M
    0.5 miles
    J M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Meserole St/Manhattan Av, 350 feet away, for the B60.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Meserole St/Manhattan Av B60
    350 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Manhattan Avenue and Scholes Street.

  • 43 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Scholes St & Manhattan Ave 36 docks in all
    80 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Williamsburg
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1950.

Since 2014 at least 83 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 94 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Manhattan Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Manhattan Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Scholes Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Scholes Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 11 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Modern. They were mostly built between 1935 and 1938.

  1. Williamsburg Houses Designated landmark
    180 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 garden
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 250 George H. Lindsay School
    750 feet
  2. Colony-South Brooklyn Houses Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · listed historic place
    780 feet
  3. Brooklyn Latin School, The School
    800 feet
Show all 9
  1. Lyons Community School
    800 feet
  2. The Williamsburg High School of Art and Technology School
    800 feet
  3. Bushwick Improvement Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    870 feet
  4. Bushwick United Housing Dev Fund/ Bushwick United Hs/ Early Learn Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    920 feet
  5. Brownsville Collegiate Charter School
    940 feet
  6. P.S. 018 Edward Bush School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Martinez Playground
    50 feet
  2. Scholes Street Children’s Garden
    230 feet
  3. Sternberg Park
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Most Holy Trinity Church St Mary House of worship
    650 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 202 Graham Avenue Older adult center
    720 feet
  2. Williamsburg Community Center
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,280 feet
  2. Beyond Natural Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and 14 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Manhattan Avenue or Scholes Street.

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