Marcy Avenue & Hancock Street

Marcy Avenue and Hancock Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Bedford Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation is 480 feet away, and Hattie Carthan Playground is 1,020 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Halsey St/Marcy Av · B26
Within a walk
24 places
8 religious buildings, 5 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Marcy Avenue & Hancock Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.5 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Marcy Av, 290 feet away, for the B26.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Marcy Av B26
    290 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. MacDonough St & Marcy Ave 22 docks in all
    800 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 540 Waverly Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 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
44 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are 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 1885 and 1900.

Since 2014 at least 11 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-3PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Bedford Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 471 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1883 and 1889.

  1. Boys' High School Designated landmark
    660 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    240 feet
  2. P.S. K140 School
    670 feet
  3. Uncommon Bed-Stuy West Charter School NYC School
    670 feet
Show all 10
  1. Uncommon Collegiate Charter High School
    680 feet
  2. Brooklyn Academy High School
    910 feet
  3. Uncommon Collegiate CHS School
    910 feet
  4. Cititots Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  5. Cm'S First Step Training Ctr Trade or language school
    1,140 feet
  6. Coll of New Rochelle Brooklyn Campus College
    1,260 feet
  7. Honablue Institute of Audio Engineer Trade or language school
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Potomac Playground
    780 feet
  2. Hattie Carthan Playground
    1,020 feet
  3. Hancock Community Backyard Garden Park Garden
    1,030 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Marcy Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    910 feet

Health care

  1. Concord Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    880 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Renaissance Apartments Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Siloam Presbyterian Church Landmark
    240 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation House of worship
    480 feet
  3. Concord Baptist Church House of worship
    650 feet
Show all 5
  1. St Pauls Church the Nazarene House of worship
    1,070 feet
  2. Greater Zion Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    980 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Hancock Street or Marcy 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.