Riverdale Avenue & Strauss Street

Riverdale Avenue and Strauss Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Riverdale Avenue Community School is 240 feet away. The nearest subway, Saratoga Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
10 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Saratoga Av
800 feet · 3 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Riverdale Av/Saratoga Av · B99
Within a walk
16 places
9 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverdale Avenue & Strauss Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Saratoga Av, 800 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Saratoga Av 3
    800 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Rockaway Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Chandelier” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Saratoga Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverdale Av/Saratoga Av, 330 feet away, for the B99.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverdale Av/Saratoga Av B99
    330 feet
    B99

Next buses at this stop

  1. B99 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverdale Ave & E 98 St 16 docks in all
    790 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 24 Dumont Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
26 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Strauss Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Strauss Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 swimming pool

Schools and child care

  1. Riverdale Avenue Community School
    240 feet
  2. Riverdale Avenue Middle School
    240 feet
  3. Sco Family of Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. Step by Step Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Betsy Head Park
    620 feet
  2. It's All About Brownsville Garden
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Peoples Baptist Church House of worship
    380 feet
  2. Congrectional El Verbo Church House of worship
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Betsy Head Pool Swimming pool
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    810 feet
  2. Green Village Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and 11 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 Riverdale Avenue or Strauss Street.

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.