Rockaway Avenue & Hull Street

Rockaway Avenue and Hull Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) is 190 feet away, and the Engine 233/Ladder 176 firehouse is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about two minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
400 feet · 2 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Rockaway Av/Fulton St · B60
Within a walk
20 places
10 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Avenue & Hull Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 400 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av C
    400 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z
  2. Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St L
    0.5 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Av/Fulton St, 310 feet away, for the B60.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Fulton St B60
    310 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. MacDougal St & Rockaway Ave 20 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2111 Monaco Place Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2021

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
96 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 29 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 86 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hull Street

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

South side of Hull Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

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
    360 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 fire station

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School (Bees) School
    470 feet
  2. Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School
    470 feet
  3. Imagine Me Leadership Charter School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) Garden
    190 feet
  2. 45 Somers Street Community Garden
    200 feet
  3. Phoenix Community Garden
    350 feet
Show all 6
  1. Betty's Community Garden at Hull Street Garden
    1,080 feet
  2. Marion Hopkinson Playground
    1,150 feet
  3. Fish Playground
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Hope Pentecostal Church House of worship
    680 feet
  2. St Matthew FBH Church House of worship
    1,120 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 233/Ladder 176 Fire station
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,030 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hull Street or Rockaway Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.