Powell Street & Riverdale Avenue

Powell Street and Riverdale Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Powell Street Garden is 460 feet away. The nearest subway, Junius St, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them parks. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1985 and 2024, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
10 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Junius St
660 feet · 3 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
840 feet
Mother Gaston Blvd/Riverdale Av · B99
Within a walk
11 places
3 parks, 2 playgrounds and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Powell Street & Riverdale Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Junius St, 660 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Livonia Av L
    1,070 feet
    L
  2. New Lots 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 Mother Gaston Blvd/Riverdale Av, 840 feet away, for the B99.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mother Gaston Blvd/Riverdale Av B99
    840 feet
    B99

Next buses at this stop

  1. B99 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Powell Street.

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Livonia Ave & Van Sinderen Ave 18 docks in all
    1,190 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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
27 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 2024.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

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

East side of Powell Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Powell Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

South side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Salvation Army Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Powell Street Garden
    460 feet
  2. Floyd Patterson Ballfields Park
    570 feet
  3. Livonia Park
    610 feet
Show all 6
  1. Nehemiah Park
    840 feet
  2. Nehemiah Park Playground
    1,020 feet
  3. Van Dyke Playground
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Mercy Church House of worship
    920 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 430 Dumont Avenue Older adult center
    1,100 feet

Fire and police

  1. Van Dyke I Police station
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,260 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Powell Street or Riverdale 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.