Nostrand Avenue & Macon Street

Nostrand Avenue and Macon Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Bedford Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Girls' High School stands 160 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 60 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Nostrand Avenue, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
10 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
210 feet · 1 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Fulton St/Nostrand Av · B25, B44, T440
Within a walk
12 places
7 religious buildings, 1 garden and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Macon Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 210 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    210 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 Fulton St/Nostrand Av, 320 feet away, for the B25, B44 and T440.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fulton St/Nostrand Av B25, B44, T440 · Shelter
    320 feet
    B25 B44 T440
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …
  2. B44 …
  3. T440 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue 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 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 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
52 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 1886 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 27 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 8 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 Macon Street

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

South side of Macon Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-11AM

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

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 standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 303733.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Bedford Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 347 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1881 and 1889.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 post office
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Cm'S First Step Training Ctr Trade or language school
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. United Herkimer Garden Club Garden
    450 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Marcy Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Renaissance Apartments Listed historic place
    520 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pilgrim Holiness Church House of worship
    480 feet
  2. Greater Zion Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    510 feet
  3. Friendship Baptist Church Listed historic place
    640 feet
Show all 4
  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation House of worship
    760 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Breevort Post Office
    1,010 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    630 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    320 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    320 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 60 places to eat and 29 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Macon 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.