Maspeth Avenue & Vandervoort Avenue

Maspeth Avenue and Vandervoort Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Carnegie Playground is 980 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Grand St/Metro Bridge, is 0.3 miles away for the Q54 and Q59, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and one place to eat. Within 820 feet are 27 homes, mostly built in 1955, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
7 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Grand St/Metro Bridge · Q54, Q59
Within a walk
3 places
1 dog run, 1 park and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Maspeth Avenue & Vandervoort Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand St/Metro Bridge, 0.3 miles away, for the Q54 and Q59.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand St/Metro Bridge Q54, Q59
    0.3 miles
    Q54 Q59

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q54 …
  2. Q59 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Morgan Ave & Maspeth Ave 25 docks in all
    520 feet

By car

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

  1. 1039 Grand Street Gas station
    1,290 feet
  2. 1074 Grand Street Charging for electric cars, four fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 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 foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11211
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
90 and 94 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Williamsburg
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

Within 820 feet of this corner are 27 homes, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 83 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and August 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Maspeth Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

North side of Maspeth Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

South side of Maspeth Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of Maspeth Avenue

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Vandervoort Avenue

  • No parking 17 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Vandervoort Avenue

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 4 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 dog run
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cooper Park
    520 feet
  2. Carnegie Playground
    980 feet
  3. Dog Run in Cooper Park Dog run
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Maspeth Avenue or Vandervoort 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, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.