Nostrand Avenue & Halsey Street

Nostrand Avenue and Halsey Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Bedford Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 47 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation is 490 feet away, and Stars of Hope Community Garden is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 53 places to eat.

Safety record
28 hurt
47 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
480 feet · 2 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Halsey St/Nostrand Av · B26
Within a walk
14 places
9 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Halsey Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 480 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    480 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av C, S
    0.4 miles
    C S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Nostrand Av, 60 feet away, for the B26.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Nostrand Av B26
    60 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Nostrand Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Macon St & Nostrand Ave 24 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 540 Waverly Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 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 47 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 28 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2019
  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
49 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1884 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 17 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and December 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Halsey Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 10A M-11:30AM

South side of Halsey Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 303733.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Bedford Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 430 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1881 and 1887.

  1. Girls' High School Designated landmark
    180 feet
  2. Reformed Episcopal Church of the Reconciliation Designated landmark
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. United Herkimer Garden Club Garden
    720 feet
  2. Stars of Hope Community Garden
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Renaissance Apartments Listed historic place
    250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation House of worship
    490 feet
  2. Pilgrim Holiness Church House of worship
    530 feet
  3. Greater Zion Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    780 feet
Show all 7
  1. Friendship Baptist Church Listed historic place
    910 feet
  2. New Canaan Baptist Church House of worship
    1,080 feet
  3. Redemption Church of Christ House of worship
    1,110 feet
  4. Siloam Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Breevort Post Office
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    590 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    590 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 53 places to eat and 25 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Halsey Street or Nostrand Avenue.

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