Putnam Avenue & Marcy Avenue

Putnam Avenue and Marcy Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Bedford Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Concord Baptist Church is 120 feet away, and Boys' High School stands 170 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
830 feet
Halsey St/Marcy Av · B26
Within a walk
22 places
8 religious buildings, 6 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Putnam Avenue & Marcy Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halsey St/Marcy Av, 830 feet away, for the B26.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St/Marcy Av B26
    830 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Putnam Ave & Nostrand Ave 19 docks in all
    790 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 775 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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 1884 and 1901.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and August 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Bedford Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 450 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1882 and 1889.

  1. Boys' High School Designated landmark
    170 feet
  2. Saint George's Protestant Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon Collegiate Charter High School
    140 feet
  2. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    350 feet
  3. Brooklyn Academy High School
    370 feet
Show all 8
  1. Uncommon Collegiate CHS School
    370 feet
  2. Cititots Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    500 feet
  3. Academy of Arts and Letters School
    970 feet
  4. P.S. K140 School
    1,210 feet
  5. Uncommon Bed-Stuy West Charter School NYC School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hattie Carthan Playground
    480 feet
  2. Shiloh Garden
    1,150 feet
  3. Stars of Hope Community Garden
    1,250 feet
Show all 4
  1. Feeding Tree Garden
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. Concord Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    340 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Concord Baptist Church House of worship
    120 feet
  2. Siloam Presbyterian Church Landmark
    350 feet
  3. St Pauls Church the Nazarene House of worship
    530 feet
Show all 4
  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Clinton Congregation House of worship
    1,020 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Police Athletic League Wynn Center Community center
    890 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

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