Mother Gaston Boulevard & MacDougal Street

Mother Gaston Boulevard and MacDougal Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Betty's Community Garden at Hull Street is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about five minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, six of them gardens, and seven places to eat. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
490 feet
Broadway/Granite St · B20, Q24
Within a walk
20 places
6 gardens, 6 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mother Gaston Boulevard & MacDougal Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av C
    0.3 miles
    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/Granite St, 490 feet away, for the B20 and Q24.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. Q24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1534 Bushwick Avenue Gas station
    0.3 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 four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2021

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
87 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 125 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and January 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of MacDougal Street

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

South side of MacDougal Street

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

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
    510 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. The Learning Experience Broadway-Brooklyn Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    620 feet
  2. Bushwick Ascend Middle School
    650 feet
  3. Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School (Bees) School
    700 feet
Show all 6
  1. Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School
    700 feet
  2. Imagine Me Leadership Charter School
    830 feet
  3. Superior Day Care Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Betty's Community Garden at Hull Street Garden
    300 feet
  2. Thomas Boyland Park
    580 feet
  3. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) Garden
    950 feet
Show all 8
  1. Callahan-Kelly Playground
    1,020 feet
  2. Infant Jesus Community Garden
    1,030 feet
  3. Granite Street Community Garden
    1,030 feet
  4. 45 Somers Street Community Garden
    1,210 feet
  5. Moffat Street Community Garden
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Hope Pentecostal Church House of worship
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    760 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    20 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along MacDougal Street or Mother Gaston Boulevard.

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