Nevins Street & Livingston Street

Nevins Street and Livingston Street meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Recovery House of Worship Church is 670 feet away. The nearest subway, Nevins St, is about a minute on foot, and 13 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 54 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Livingston Street, all day.

Safety record
16 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nevins St
330 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Livingston St/Nevins St · B41, B45, B67
Within a walk
31 places
7 religious buildings, 5 schools and 13 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nevins Street & Livingston Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nevins St, 330 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nevins St 2, 3, 4, 5
    330 feet
    2 3 4 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
4 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
Outbound
4 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. DeKalb Av B, Q, R
    750 feet
    B Q R
  2. Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts A, C, G
    1,000 feet
    A C G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Work & Nature” (1997) by Anton van Dalen at the Nevins St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Livingston St/Nevins St, 60 feet away, for the B41, B45 and B67.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Livingston St/Nevins St B41, B45, B67
    60 feet
    B41 B45 B67

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …
  2. B45 …
  3. B67 …

Live arrivals

Livingston Street carries a bus lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 119 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Nevins St & Schermerhorn St 28 docks in all
    240 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 465 Pacific Street Charging for electric cars, 17 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2014

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33
Police precinct
84
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 7,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2014 and 2022.

Since 2014 at least 701 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2023 and April 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Livingston Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 1 HOUR METERED PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 1 sign 1 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

South side of Livingston Street

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Nevins Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Nevins Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 303260, 303709 and 342671.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 career or business centers
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 12 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Medical Aid Training Schools Trade or language school
    370 feet
  2. Brooklyn Rise Charter School
    670 feet
  3. P.S. K369 - Coy L. Cox School
    790 feet
Show all 7
  1. Strong Place for Hope Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
  2. Khalil Gibran International Academy School
    1,080 feet
  3. The Elizabeth Jennings School for Bold Explorers School
    1,080 feet
  4. P.S. 038 the Pacific School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sixteen Sycamores Playground
    400 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bears/Rockwell Place Garden
    680 feet
  3. University Place Park
    860 feet
Show all 4
  1. North Pacific Playground
    1,130 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Fox Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    500 feet
  2. Public space at Forte Public space
    1,070 feet
  3. Albee Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,220 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at BAM South Public space
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Library for Arts & Culture Library
    1,150 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Polonsky Shakespeare Center Theater or concert hall
    810 feet
  2. BAM Harvey Theater Theater or concert hall
    820 feet
  3. Brooklyn Academy of Music Arts or cultural center · listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Recovery House of Worship Church Listed historic place
    670 feet
  2. St Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Brooklyn Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    740 feet
  2. NYC Business Solutions Brooklyn Center Career or business center
    740 feet
  3. Older adult center at 460 Atlantic Avenue Older adult center
    890 feet
Show all 4
  1. NYS Department of Labor Metrotech Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    1,060 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 226 Fire station
    620 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    450 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    530 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    570 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    810 feet
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  3. Lidl Supermarket
    1,210 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    270 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    890 feet
  2. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. City Point Shopping center
    0.3 miles
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 54 places to eat and 17 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Livingston Street or Nevins Street.

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