Powell Street & Newport Street

Powell Street and Newport Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. A Patch of Inspiration is 780 feet away, and P.S. 184 Newport is 1,040 feet away. The nearest subway, Junius St, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them gardens, and one place to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Junius St
1,230 feet · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
New Lots Av/Powell St · B15
Within a walk
11 places
4 gardens, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Powell Street & Newport Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Junius St, 1,230 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Junius St 3
    1,230 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. New Lots Av L
    1,260 feet
    L
  2. Livonia Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Paroles Vagabondes/Wisdom Along the Way” (2017) by Béatrice Lebreton at the Junius St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New Lots Av/Powell St, 900 feet away, for the B15.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av/Powell St B15
    900 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Powell Street.

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Mother Gaston Blvd & Newport St 14 docks in all
    810 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41 and 42 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
24 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1985 and 1989.

Since 2014 at least 116 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Newport Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Newport Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Powell Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Powell Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 184 Newport School
    1,040 feet
  2. Joyful Tots Daycare Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Floyd Patterson Ballfields Park
    570 feet
  2. Green Valley Garden
    780 feet
  3. A Patch of Inspiration Garden
    780 feet
Show all 7
  1. Powell Street Garden
    1,030 feet
  2. Livonia Park
    1,180 feet
  3. Abib Newborn Garden
    1,230 feet
  4. Brownsville Playground
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. United Missionary Baptist Church House of worship
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    880 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

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

See every intersection along Newport Street or Powell Street.

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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.