Nassau Avenue & Newel Street

Nassau Avenue and Newel Street meet at a four-way crossing in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Edith Schkrutz Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Msgr. McGolrick Park is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Nassau Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the G. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 58 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nassau Av
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Nassau Av/Newel St · B48
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nassau Avenue & Newel Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nassau Av, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Nassau Av G
    1,000 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nassau Av/Newel St, 70 feet away, for the B48.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nassau Av/Newel St B48
    70 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Nassau Avenue.

  • 54 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 6 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Nassau Ave & Newell St 51 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Meeker Avenue & Graham Avenue at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 176 McGuinness Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 33 Norman Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 53-26 Van Dam Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11222
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Greenpoint
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Edith Schkrutz Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2026 (Local Law 48 of 2026).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 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 1910 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 7 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Edith Schkrutz Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Nassau Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Nassau Avenue

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

East side of Newel Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Newel Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Saint Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Academy School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    600 feet
  2. ABC Child Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    640 feet
  3. St Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Acad School
    710 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 034 Oliver H. Perry School
    1,140 feet
  2. Atelier de la casa Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Msgr. McGolrick Park
    910 feet
  2. Monsignor Mcgolrick Playground
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 58 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Nassau Avenue or Newel Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.