Marcy Avenue & Jefferson Avenue

Marcy Avenue and Jefferson Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Bedford Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Siloam Presbyterian Church is 130 feet away, and Brooklyn Academy High School is 640 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
Halsey St/Marcy Av · B26
Within a walk
25 places
9 religious buildings, 6 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Marcy Avenue & Jefferson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

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

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Marcy Av, 560 feet away, for the B26.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Putnam Ave & Nostrand Ave 19 docks in all
    1,060 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2026

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
46 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1884 and 1899.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese pagoda tree and the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and February 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Jefferson Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Jefferson Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Bedford Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 499 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
    400 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    130 feet
  2. Uncommon Collegiate Charter High School
    410 feet
  3. Brooklyn Academy High School
    640 feet
Show all 8
  1. Uncommon Collegiate CHS School
    640 feet
  2. Cititots Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    770 feet
  3. P.S. K140 School
    940 feet
  4. Uncommon Bed-Stuy West Charter School NYC School
    940 feet
  5. Academy of Arts and Letters School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hattie Carthan Playground
    750 feet
  2. Potomac Playground
    1,050 feet
  3. Hancock Community Backyard Garden Park Garden
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Marcy Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,170 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church Listed historic place
    1,110 feet
  2. Renaissance Apartments Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Siloam Presbyterian Church Landmark
    130 feet
  2. Concord Baptist Church House of worship
    380 feet
  3. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation House of worship
    750 feet
Show all 4
  1. St Pauls Church the Nazarene House of worship
    800 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Police Athletic League Wynn Center Community center
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Jefferson Avenue 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.