Nostrand Avenue & Hancock Street

Nostrand Avenue and Hancock Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Bedford Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Girls' High School stands 430 feet away, and John Hancock Playground is 1,080 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 40 places to eat.

Safety record
22 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
750 feet · 3 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Nostrand Av/Hancock St · B44
Within a walk
16 places
10 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Hancock Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 750 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    750 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 Nostrand Av/Hancock St, 120 feet away, for the B44.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Hancock St B44
    120 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 15 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
    640 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.5 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 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • 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
47 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 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 1900.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and September 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Nostrand Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Bedford Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 452 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1881 and 1887.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Stars of Hope Community Garden
    870 feet
  2. United Herkimer Garden Club Garden
    990 feet
  3. John Hancock Playground
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Renaissance Apartments Listed historic place
    100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation House of worship
    520 feet
  2. Pilgrim Holiness Church House of worship
    800 feet
  3. New Canaan Baptist Church House of worship
    810 feet
Show all 6
  1. Siloam Presbyterian Church Landmark
    1,010 feet
  2. Greater Zion Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    1,050 feet
  3. Friendship Baptist Church Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 57/Engine 235 Fire station
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    860 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,180 feet
  3. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    860 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 40 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

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