Ralph Avenue & MacDougal Street

Ralph Avenue and MacDougal Street meet at a three-way junction in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Brevoort development. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Shirley A Chisholm Post Office is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Ralph Av, is about a minute on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, 17 of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ralph Av
40 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Ralph Av/Fulton St · B47
Within a walk
29 places
17 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ralph Avenue & MacDougal Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ralph Av, 40 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av C
    40 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Utica Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C
  2. Rockaway Av C
    0.5 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Fulton St, 170 feet away, for the B47.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ralph Ave & Fulton St 25 docks in all
    70 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    1,020 feet
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

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
58 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1980 and 2015.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Brevoort development.

Since 2014 at least 99 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of MacDougal Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Fulton Street Traffic Triangle.

  1. Freedom's Gate Sculpture by Charles Searles, 1997
    90 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 040 George W. Carver School
    590 feet
  2. Bishop Sexton Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    620 feet
  3. Starting Point - St Mark's Family School
    680 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brevoort Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet
  2. Shirley Chisholm Day Care Center #1 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brevoort Playground
    350 feet
  2. Carver Playground
    860 feet
  3. Weeksville Playground
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,070 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Shirley A Chisholm Post Office
    520 feet
  2. Brevoort Community Center
    690 feet
  3. Older adult center at 280 Ralph Avenue Older adult center
    690 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    540 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,130 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 20 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along MacDougal Street or Ralph Avenue.

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