Monroe Street & Marcus Garvey Boulevard

Monroe Street and Marcus Garvey Boulevard meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Firefighter, SGT USA Reservist Shawn E. Powell Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 31 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Mary Church of Christ is 400 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Marcus Garvey Blvd/Gates Av, is 170 feet away for the B15. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
15 hurt
31 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
2.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Marcus Garvey Blvd/Gates Av · B15
Within a walk
16 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Monroe Street & Marcus Garvey Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Marcus Garvey Blvd/Gates Av, 170 feet away, for the B15.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Marcus Garvey Blvd/Gates Av B15
    170 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Monroe St & Marcus Garvey Blvd 20 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1381 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 775 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 31 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79 and 81 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter, SGT USA Reservist Shawn E. Powell Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

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.

Since 2014 at least 90 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 86 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter, SGT USA Reservist Shawn E. Powell Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and August 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Marcus Garvey Boulevard

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Marcus Garvey Boulevard

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Monroe Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Monroe Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Co-Op School
    310 feet
  2. Talmud Torah D'Nitra School
    660 feet
  3. P.S. 044 Marcus Garvey School
    740 feet
Show all 7
  1. Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn School
    740 feet
  2. Bedford Stuyvessant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  3. Sunshine Nursery & Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet
  4. Sunshine Nursery and Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Raymond Bush Playground
    50 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Mary Church of Christ House of worship
    400 feet
  2. Cornerstone Baptist Church Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 562 Madison Street Older adult center
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,020 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    390 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 15 food stores.

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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Marcus Garvey Boulevard or Monroe Street.

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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.