Riverdale Avenue & Junius Street

Riverdale Avenue and Junius Street meet at a three-way junction in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Livonia Park is 610 feet away, and Our Lady Mercy Church is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, Livonia Av, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them parks.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Livonia Av
810 feet · 3 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
Junius St/Livonia Av · T426
Within a walk
9 places
3 parks, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverdale Avenue & Junius Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Livonia Av, 810 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

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

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Junius St/Livonia Av, 590 feet away, for the T426.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Junius St/Livonia Av T426
    590 feet
    T426

Next buses at this stop

  1. T426 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Livonia Ave & Van Sinderen Ave 18 docks in all
    940 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
42
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 1985 and 2005.

Since 2014 at least 57 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2021 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Junius Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

South side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Powell Street Garden
    560 feet
  2. Livonia Park
    610 feet
  3. Floyd Patterson Ballfields Park
    830 feet
Show all 5
  1. Nehemiah Park
    1,100 feet
  2. Nehemiah Park Playground
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Mercy Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 460 Dumont Avenue Older adult center
    1,130 feet

Fire and police

  1. Van Dyke I Police station
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,110 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,300 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Junius Street or Riverdale 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.