Putnam Avenue & Marcus Garvey Boulevard

Putnam Avenue and Marcus Garvey Boulevard meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Co-Op School is 850 feet away, and Talmud Torah D'Nitra is 1,200 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Marcus Garvey Blvd/Madison St, is 170 feet away for the B15, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
2.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Marcus Garvey Blvd/Madison St · B15
Within a walk
12 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Putnam Avenue & Marcus Garvey Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Marcus Garvey Blvd/Madison St, 170 feet away, for the B15.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Marcus Garvey Blvd/Madison St B15
    170 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 22 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Monroe St & Marcus Garvey Blvd 20 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1381 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 775 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79 and 81 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
58 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1910.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in August 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Marcus Garvey Boulevard

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Marcus Garvey Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Co-Op School
    850 feet
  2. Cornerstone Day Care Center Pre-K
    930 feet
  3. P.S. 044 Marcus Garvey School
    1,040 feet
Show all 5
  1. Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn School
    1,040 feet
  2. Talmud Torah D'Nitra School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Raymond Bush Playground
    320 feet
  2. Garden of Hope Garden
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Mary Church of Christ House of worship
    790 feet
  2. Cornerstone Baptist Church Listed historic place
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 562 Madison Street Older adult center
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    940 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk 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 Marcus Garvey Boulevard or Putnam Avenue.

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