Ralph Avenue & Hancock Street

Ralph Avenue and Hancock Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 005 Dr. Ronald McNair is 200 feet away. The nearest subway, Gates Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 33 public places, 21 of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Gates Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Ralph Av/Hancock St · B47
Within a walk
33 places
21 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ralph Avenue & Hancock Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Halsey St J
    0.4 miles
    J
  2. Ralph Av C
    0.5 miles
    C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Dream Train” (2002) by Chris Wade Robinson at the Gates Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Hancock St, 110 feet away, for the B47.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Hancock St B47
    110 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2016

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 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 1899 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 9 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

East side of Ralph Avenue

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

West side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    170 feet
  2. P.S. 005 Dr. Ronald McNair School
    200 feet
  3. P.S. 309 the George E. Wibecan Preparatory Academy School
    1,130 feet
Show all 6
  1. Uncommon Excellence Girls Charter School NYC School
    1,130 feet
  2. Yeshiva D'Nitra School
    1,250 feet
  3. Adaptive Solutions Multi Services Preschool
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Halsey Ralph & Howard Community Garden
    310 feet
  2. Welcome Home Garden
    730 feet
  3. Saratoga Park
    1,060 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.O. Reinaldo Salgado Playground
    1,180 feet
  2. New Madison Harvest Community Garden
    1,180 feet
  3. Saratoga Park Playground
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethenia Baptist Church House of worship
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    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 17 places to eat and 14 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 Hancock Street or Ralph 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.