Ralph Avenue & Decatur Street

Ralph Avenue and Decatur Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 120 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Brevoort Playground is 640 feet away, and P.S. 005 Dr. Ronald McNair is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, Ralph Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ralph Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Ralph Av/Decatur St · B47
Within a walk
24 places
10 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ralph Avenue & Decatur Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ralph Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Ralph Av C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Decatur St, 100 feet away, for the B47.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Decatur St B47
    100 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Halsey St & Ralph Ave 20 docks in all
    850 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 419 Stuyvesant Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 120 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,724th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 85 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
41
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
46 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 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.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 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
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and September 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Decatur Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Decatur Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Brevoort Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet
  2. Stuyvesant Heights Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    890 feet
  3. P.S. 005 Dr. Ronald McNair School
    1,120 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 040 George W. Carver School
    1,130 feet
  2. Uncommon Excellence Boys Charter School NYC School
    1,240 feet
  3. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brevoort Playground
    640 feet
  2. Halsey Ralph & Howard Community Garden
    710 feet
  3. Central Bainbridge Street Community Garden
    970 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bed-Stuy Farm Garden
    1,180 feet
  2. Carver Playground
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Immanuel Congregational Church Listed historic place
    660 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Westminster Bethany Presbyterian Church House of worship
    890 feet
  2. Nazarene Congregational United Church of Christ House of worship
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Brevoort Community Center
    1,250 feet
  2. Older adult center at 280 Ralph Avenue Older adult center
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet 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 Decatur Street or Ralph Avenue.

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