Rockaway Avenue & Chauncey Street

Rockaway Avenue and Chauncey Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Engine 233/Ladder 176 firehouse is 120 feet away, and Cooper Street Block Buster Community Garden is 950 feet away. The nearest subway, Chauncey St, is about two minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Chauncey St
450 feet · 2 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Rockaway Av/Chauncey St · B60
Within a walk
23 places
10 religious buildings, 7 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Avenue & Chauncey Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Chauncey St, 450 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    450 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Rockaway Av C
    0.3 miles
    C
  2. Halsey St J
    0.4 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “El Views” (2002) by Maria Dominguez at the Chauncey St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Av/Chauncey St, 100 feet away, for the B60.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Chauncey St B60 · Shelter
    100 feet
    B60
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rockaway Ave & Bainbridge St 25 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1534 Bushwick Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
37 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1925.

Since 2014 at least 141 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and May 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Chauncey Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Chauncey Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

East side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

West side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Romanesque Revival. They were built between 1888 and 1895.

  1. Public School 73 Designated landmark
    670 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 7 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Superior Day Care Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    680 feet
  2. Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School (Bees) School
    860 feet
  3. Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School
    860 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marion Hopkinson Playground
    250 feet
  2. Moffat Street Community Garden
    600 feet
  3. Moffat Garden
    610 feet
Show all 9
  1. Cooper Street Community Garden
    790 feet
  2. Cooper Street Block Buster Community Garden
    950 feet
  3. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) Garden
    1,020 feet
  4. Thomas Boyland Park
    1,020 feet
  5. 721 Decatur Street Community Garden
    1,260 feet
  6. 45 Somers Street Community Garden
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 233/Ladder 176 Fire station
    120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    700 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Chauncey Street or Rockaway 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.