Marcy Avenue & Hooper Street

Marcy Avenue and Hooper Street meet at a four-way crossing in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Transfiguration RC Church is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, Hewes St, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 43 public places, 27 of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Hewes St
940 feet · 4 min on foot · J, M
Nearest bus stop
880 feet
Broadway/Hooper St · B106, T432
Within a walk
43 places
27 religious buildings, 6 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Marcy Avenue & Hooper Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Hewes St, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hewes St J, M
    940 feet
    J M

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Marcy Av J, M, Z
    1,310 feet
    J M Z
  2. Broadway G
    0.4 miles
    G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “El in 16 Notes” (2002) by Mara Held at the Hewes St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Hooper St, 880 feet away, for the B106 and T432.

  • 17 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Hooper St B106, T432
    880 feet
    B106 T432

Next buses at this stop

  1. B106 …
  2. T432 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Division Ave & Hooper St 61 docks in all
    760 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 247 Union Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 260 South 4th Street Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11211
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Williamsburg
Elevation
53 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 1899 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hooper Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Hooper Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Beaux-Arts, and built between 1903 and 1905.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 43 public places.

  • 27 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice School
    300 feet
  2. Beth Rachel School for Girls School
    550 feet
  3. Yeshivath Kehilath Yakov Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    630 feet
Show all 11
  1. Yeshiva Headstart Keap Street Pre-K
    790 feet
  2. Bnos Yakov School
    790 feet
  3. Uta 212 School
    810 feet
  4. School Based Child Care School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,010 feet
  5. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,070 feet
  6. Beginning With Children Charter School II School
    1,180 feet
  7. Juan Morel Campos Secondary School
    1,180 feet
  8. Cuddles Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rodney Park South Park
    860 feet
  2. Marcy Park South Park
    890 feet
  3. Hooper Grove Garden
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Rodney Park Center Park
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Williamsburgh Library Landmark
    720 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Transfiguration RC Church House of worship
    110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  2. One Stop Kosher Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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