Meeker Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Meeker Avenue and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway meet at a three-way junction in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sgt. William Dougherty Playground is 770 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cherry St/Vandervoort Av, is 770 feet away for the B24, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and one place to eat. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1899 and 1928, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
1,320 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
770 feet
Cherry St/Vandervoort Av · B24
Within a walk
1 place
1 playground, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Meeker Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cherry St/Vandervoort Av, 770 feet away, for the B24.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cherry St/Vandervoort Av B24
    770 feet
    B24

Next buses at this stop

  1. B24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Van Dam St & Meeker Ave 31 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Varick Avenue, 1,320 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 546 Morgan Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 444 Graham Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 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 four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11222
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33 and 34 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Williamsburg

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sgt. William Dougherty Playground
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or Meeker Avenue.

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.