Rockaway Avenue & Marion Street

Rockaway Avenue and Marion 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. Marion Hopkinson Playground is 340 feet away. The nearest subway, Chauncey St, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1926, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Chauncey St
720 feet · 3 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Rockaway Av/Marion St · B60
Within a walk
23 places
9 religious buildings, 8 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Avenue & Marion Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Chauncey St, 720 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    720 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
    1,210 feet
    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/Marion St, 110 feet away, for the B60.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rockaway Ave & Bainbridge St 25 docks in all
    580 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
    0.5 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
    2.6 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 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
72 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1926.

Since 2014 at least 95 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2020 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Marion Street

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

South side of Marion Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 3 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
    410 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

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

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marion Hopkinson Playground
    340 feet
  2. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) Garden
    750 feet
  3. Moffat Street Community Garden
    870 feet
Show all 10
  1. Moffat Garden
    890 feet
  2. Thomas Boyland Park
    940 feet
  3. 45 Somers Street Community Garden
    1,010 feet
  4. Cooper Street Community Garden
    1,060 feet
  5. Phoenix Community Garden
    1,160 feet
  6. Cooper Street Block Buster Community Garden
    1,220 feet
  7. Granite Street Community Garden
    1,280 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 233/Ladder 176 Fire station
    390 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    870 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten 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 Marion 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.