Nostrand Avenue & Union Street

Nostrand Avenue and Union Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. The corner is also named J. Marjory Jackson Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Philadelphia Sabbath Cathedral is 180 feet away. The nearest subway, President St-Medgar Evers College, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
President St-Medgar Evers College
340 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Nostrand Av/Eastern Pkwy · B44, B96
Within a walk
15 places
9 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Union Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is President St-Medgar Evers College, 340 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    340 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av 3
    350 feet
    3
  2. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Eastern Pkwy, 120 feet away, for the B44 and B96.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Eastern Pkwy B44, B96 · Shelter
    120 feet
    B44 B96
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. B96 …

Live arrivals

Nostrand Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Nostrand Ave 27 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 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, July 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
117 feet above sea level

This corner is also named J. Marjory Jackson Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1912 and 1923.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the American elm and the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on J. Marjory Jackson Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 52 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 8 active meters
  • 5 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2023 and December 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Union Street (south side).

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-NOON

West side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-NOON 2PM-4PM SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • Truck loading only 4 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-2PM

North side of Union Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 307151, 307152, 308112, 308113 and 311544.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 70 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1899 and 1904.

  1. Kings County Savings Bank Designated landmark
    500 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools

Schools and child care

  1. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    510 feet
  2. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    800 feet
  3. Ella Baker / Charles Romain Child Development Center of Medgar Evers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany of Brooklyn NY School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,230 feet
  2. Epiphany Lutheran Elementary School
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Philadelphia Sabbath Cathedral Listed historic place
    180 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,130 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Nostrand Avenue or Union 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 Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.