Pitkin Avenue & Hendrix Street

Pitkin Avenue and Hendrix Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Bishop John L. Smith Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Poppa & Momma Jones Historical Garden is 500 feet away, and Herbal Garden of East New York is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, Van Siclen Av, is about a minute on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places and six places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Van Siclen Av
280 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
1,040 feet
Sutter Av/Hendrix St · B14
Within a walk
24 places
11 religious buildings, 10 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pitkin Avenue & Hendrix Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Van Siclen Av, 280 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Van Siclen Av C
    280 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Van Siclen Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z
  2. Shepherd Av C
    0.5 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sutter Av/Hendrix St, 1,040 feet away, for the B14.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av/Hendrix St B14 · Shelter
    1,040 feet
    B14
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Hendrix Street and Pitkin Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pitkin Ave & Van Siclen Ave 18 docks in all
    240 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2822 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Bishop John L. Smith Way, a co-naming enacted on July 29, 2018 (Local Law 139 of 2018).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 24 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Bishop John L. Smith Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hendrix Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Hendrix Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Pitkin Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Pitkin Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 10 gardens
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Canarsie Children First Academy School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Poppa & Momma Jones Historical Garden
    500 feet
  2. Escape to Nature Garden
    510 feet
  3. Jerry and the Senior Gents of E.N.Y. Garden
    520 feet
Show all 11
  1. East End Community Garden
    720 feet
  2. Herbal Garden of East New York Garden
    730 feet
  3. Clara's Garden
    730 feet
  4. Sutter Ballfields Park
    770 feet
  5. Oriental Garden
    770 feet
  6. Jerome-Glenmore Cornerstone Garden
    970 feet
  7. Concerned Residents of Barbey Street Garden
    980 feet
  8. Gregory's Garden
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fiorentino Plaza Listed historic place
    700 feet

Houses of worship

  1. E End Baptist Church House of worship
    370 feet
  2. Second Calvary Baptist Church House of worship
    1,040 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    340 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hendrix Street or Pitkin Avenue.

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