Putnam Avenue & Throop Avenue

Putnam Avenue and Throop Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 390 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Raymond Bush Playground is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about seven minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Throop Av/Jefferson Av · B43
Within a walk
13 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Putnam Avenue & Throop Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston-Throop Avs, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.4 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Throop Av/Jefferson Av, 180 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Throop Av/Jefferson Av B43
    180 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Throop Avenue.

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Putnam Ave & Throop Ave 21 docks in all
    80 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 390 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,328th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 203 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1900 and 1915.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

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 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Throop Avenue

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

West side of Throop Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 044 Marcus Garvey School
    600 feet
  2. Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn School
    600 feet
  3. Sunshine Nursery & Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. Sunshine Nursery and Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    990 feet
  2. Glorious and Gifted Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Raymond Bush Playground
    630 feet
  2. Garden of Hope Garden
    790 feet
  3. Hancock Community Backyard Garden Park Garden
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. Feeding Tree Garden
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Putnam Avenue or Throop Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.