Rockaway Avenue & MacDougal Street

Rockaway Avenue and MacDougal Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Public School 73 stands 150 feet away, and Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School is 200 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
660 feet · 3 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Rockaway Av/Macdougal St · B60
Within a walk
19 places
11 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Avenue & MacDougal Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 660 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av C
    660 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
    1,260 feet
    J Z
  2. Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Av/Macdougal St, 110 feet away, for the B60.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Macdougal St B60
    110 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. MacDougal St & Rockaway Ave 20 docks in all
    40 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. 1534 Bushwick Avenue Gas station
    0.5 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
    2.5 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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018

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
87 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and December 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of MacDougal Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of MacDougal Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign 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
    150 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School (Bees) School
    200 feet
  2. Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School
    200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) Garden
    210 feet
  2. 45 Somers Street Community Garden
    470 feet
  3. Phoenix Community Garden
    620 feet
Show all 5
  1. Marion Hopkinson Playground
    890 feet
  2. Betty's Community Garden at Hull Street Garden
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Hope Pentecostal Church House of worship
    940 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 233/Ladder 176 Fire station
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    760 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along MacDougal 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.