Putnam Avenue & Tompkins Avenue

Putnam Avenue and Tompkins Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 544 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Shiloh Garden is 750 feet away, and First Quincy Street Community Garden is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about nine minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Tompkins Av/Putnam Av · B43
Within a walk
25 places
10 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Putnam Avenue & Tompkins 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 nine 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 Tompkins Av/Putnam Av, 120 feet away, for the B43.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tompkins Av/Putnam Av B43
    120 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Tompkins Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Monroe St & Tompkins Ave 19 docks in all
    600 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1381 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 544 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,135th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 269 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
49 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1920.

Since 2014 at least 11 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 11 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

East side of Tompkins Avenue

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

West side of Tompkins Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING JUNE–NOVEMBER SUNDAY 10AM-8PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 151 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1883 and 1890.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Academy of Arts and Letters School
    660 feet
  2. Uncommon Collegiate Charter High School
    940 feet
  3. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,150 feet
Show all 6
  1. Brooklyn Academy High School
    1,170 feet
  2. Uncommon Collegiate CHS School
    1,170 feet
  3. Cititots Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Feeding Tree Garden
    500 feet
  2. Shiloh Garden
    750 feet
  3. Hancock Community Backyard Garden Park Garden
    770 feet
Show all 6
  1. Potomac Playground
    860 feet
  2. Hattie Carthan Playground
    920 feet
  3. First Quincy Street Community Garden
    1,200 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Boys' High School Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Concord Baptist Church House of worship
    820 feet
  2. St Pauls Church the Nazarene House of worship
    1,140 feet
  3. Siloam Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Stuyvesant Heights Christian Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    630 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

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