Riverdale Avenue & Hinsdale Street

Riverdale Avenue and Hinsdale Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Dennis J. Taylor Drive by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Legacy School of the Arts is 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, Livonia Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them gardens, and one place to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Livonia Av
1,090 feet · 4 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
810 feet
Snediker Av/Livonia Av · T426
Within a walk
11 places
3 gardens, 3 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverdale Avenue & Hinsdale Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Livonia Av, 1,090 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Livonia Av L
    1,090 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. New Lots Av L
    0.3 miles
    L
  2. Junius St 3
    0.3 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Seasons” (2007) by Philemona Williamson at the Livonia Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Snediker Av/Livonia Av, 810 feet away, for the T426.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Snediker Av/Livonia Av T426
    810 feet
    T426

Next buses at this stop

  1. T426 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Hinsdale Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hinsdale St & Newport St 12 docks in all
    540 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1868 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dennis J. Taylor Drive, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 351 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dennis J. Taylor Drive.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hinsdale Street

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

West side of Hinsdale Street

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

North side of Riverdale Avenue

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

South side of Riverdale Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 gardens
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Children's Corner Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet
  2. University Settlement Society of New York Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,220 feet
  3. Legacy School of the Arts School
    1,230 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 190 Sheffield School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lion's Pride Playground
    300 feet
  2. Positive Seeds of Life Garden
    680 feet
  3. Success Garden - East New York Garden
    870 feet
Show all 4
  1. Hands & Heart (New Lots Urban Farm) Garden
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and four 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hinsdale Street or Riverdale Avenue.

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