Mother Gaston Boulevard & Hull Street

Mother Gaston Boulevard and Hull Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. New Hope Pentecostal Church is 700 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about four minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, six of them gardens, and ten places to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
740 feet
Broadway/Hull St · B20, Q24
Within a walk
17 places
6 gardens, 4 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mother Gaston Boulevard & Hull Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av C
    1,140 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St L
    0.3 miles
    L
  2. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Hull St, 740 feet away, for the B20 and Q24.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Hull St B20, Q24
    740 feet
    B20 Q24

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. Q24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. MacDougal St & Rockaway Ave 20 docks in all
    1,040 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1534 Bushwick Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
37
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
90 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 128 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 99 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hull Street

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

South side of Hull Street

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

East side of Mother Gaston Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Mother Gaston Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Romanesque Revival. They were built between 1888 and 1895.

  1. Public School 73 Designated landmark
    610 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 gardens
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Imagine Me Leadership Charter School
    560 feet
  2. The Learning Experience Broadway-Brooklyn Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    890 feet
  3. Bushwick Ascend Middle School
    920 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School (Bees) School
    970 feet
  2. Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School
    970 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Betty's Community Garden at Hull Street Garden
    330 feet
  2. Callahan-Kelly Playground
    750 feet
  3. Thomas Boyland Park
    850 feet
Show all 8
  1. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) Garden
    940 feet
  2. 45 Somers Street Community Garden
    940 feet
  3. Phoenix Community Garden
    1,100 feet
  4. Infant Jesus Community Garden
    1,310 feet
  5. Granite Street Community Garden
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Hope Pentecostal Church House of worship
    700 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    1,030 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    290 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hull Street or Mother Gaston Boulevard.

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