Riverdale Avenue & Sackman Street

Riverdale Avenue and Sackman Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nehemiah Park is 580 feet away. The nearest subway, Junius St, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them parks. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1985 and 2024, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Junius St
590 feet · 2 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
Mother Gaston Blvd/Riverdale Av · B99
Within a walk
13 places
3 parks, 3 playgrounds and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverdale Avenue & Sackman Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Junius St, 590 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Junius St 3
    590 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Livonia Av L
    0.3 miles
    L
  2. New Lots Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Paroles Vagabondes/Wisdom Along the Way” (2017) by Béatrice Lebreton at the Junius St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Mother Gaston Blvd/Riverdale Av, 580 feet away, for the B99.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mother Gaston Blvd/Riverdale Av B99
    580 feet
    B99

Next buses at this stop

  1. B99 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Sackman Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Mother Gaston Blvd & Newport St 14 docks in all
    1,080 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
    0.6 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
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 2024.

Since 2014 at least 145 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and October 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Sackman Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Sackman Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Salvation Army Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    920 feet
  2. P.S. 184 Newport School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Floyd Patterson Ballfields Park
    310 feet
  2. Nehemiah Park
    580 feet
  3. Powell Street Garden
    720 feet
Show all 7
  1. Nehemiah Park Playground
    760 feet
  2. Livonia Park
    870 feet
  3. Van Dyke Playground
    980 feet
  4. Newport Playground
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Mercy Church House of worship
    660 feet
  2. United Missionary Baptist Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Fire and police

  1. Van Dyke I Police station
    740 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverdale Avenue or Sackman Street.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.