Nostrand Avenue & Park Avenue

Nostrand Avenue and Park Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Marcy development. The corner is also named Syl Williamson Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 42 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,520 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Marcy Community Center is 1,050 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the G. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places and four places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
42 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Nostrand Av/Park Av · B44
Within a walk
21 places
6 day care or pre-K sites, 6 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Park Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Flushing Av G
    0.3 miles
    G

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle-Willoughby Avs G
    0.3 miles
    G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Park Av, 120 feet away, for the B44.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Park Av 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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Nostrand Ave & Myrtle Ave 23 docks in all
    760 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 212 Harrison Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 28-17 42nd Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 42 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2016
  • Turn calming, September 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,520 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 543rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,052 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Southbound on Nostrand Avenue1,1651,052
Westbound on Park Avenue355–
Total1,5201,052

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
33 and 36 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Syl Williamson Way, a co-naming enacted on December 29, 2008 (Local Law 64 of 2008).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 in 1962.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Marcy development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Skyline' thornless honeylocust.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 57 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 11 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO NYC DEPT OF HEALTH & MENTAL HYGIENE MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-7PM

North side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 playgrounds

Schools and child care

  1. Central Uta School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    530 feet
  2. Bais Ruchel D'Satmar - Girls School
    580 feet
  3. Bais Ruchel D'Satmar Girls Annex School
    680 feet
Show all 11
  1. Adaptive Solutions Multi Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    870 feet
  2. Our Children-The Leaders of Tomorrow Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    870 feet
  3. Owl Early Intervention Program Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    870 feet
  4. Adaptive Solutions - Myrtle Ave School
    970 feet
  5. Bnei Shimon Yisroel of Sopron School
    970 feet
  6. The Williamsburg Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,080 feet
  7. Yeshiva of Kasho School
    1,170 feet
  8. Yeshiva Yesode Hatorah Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marcy Playground
    640 feet
  2. Stockton Playground
    1,060 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Marcy Community center
    500 feet
  2. Marcy Community Center
    1,050 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Chestnut Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    970 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 14 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Nostrand Avenue or Park Avenue.

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