Quincy Street & Throop Avenue

Quincy Street and Throop Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. First Quincy Street Community Garden is 660 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Throop Av/Gates Av, is 170 feet away for the B43, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat. About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
11 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
1.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Throop Av/Gates Av · B43
Within a walk
20 places
8 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Quincy Street & Throop Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Throop Av/Gates Av, 170 feet away, for the B43.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Throop Av/Gates Av B43
    170 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Throop Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Greene Ave & Throop Ave 19 docks in all
    590 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
    0.9 miles
  2. 775 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017
  • Turn calming, December 2025

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
52 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 94 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 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 June 2018 and March 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Quincy Street

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

South side of Quincy Street

  • No parking 10 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 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Glorious and Gifted Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    180 feet
  2. Bedford Stuyvessant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    420 feet
  3. P.S. 044 Marcus Garvey School
    750 feet
Show all 8
  1. Sunshine Nursery & Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    460 feet
  2. Sunshine Nursery and Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    460 feet
  3. Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn School
    750 feet
  4. Talmud Torah D'Nitra School
    920 feet
  5. Co-Op School
    1,030 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. First Quincy Street Community Garden
    660 feet
  2. Raymond Bush Playground
    1,170 feet
  3. Hattie Carthan Herban Farm Garden
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Philips Christian Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Fire and police

  1. 79th Precinct Police station
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    280 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    950 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Quincy Street or Throop Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.