Sackman Street & Newport Street

Sackman Street and Newport Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. United Missionary Baptist Church is 740 feet away, and Van Dyke I is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, Junius St, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them gardens.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Junius St
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
980 feet
New Lots Av/Sackman St · B15
Within a walk
14 places
4 gardens, 4 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sackman Street & Newport Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Junius St, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Junius St 3
    1,160 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. New Lots Av L
    0.3 miles
    L
  2. Livonia Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Paroles Vagabondes/Wisdom Along the Way” (2017) by Béatrice Lebreton at the Junius St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New Lots Av/Sackman St, 980 feet away, for the B15.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av/Sackman St B15
    980 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Sackman Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Mother Gaston Blvd & Newport St 14 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

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 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1985 and 1986.

Since 2014 at least 14 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 79 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Newport Street

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

South side of Newport Street

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

East side of Sackman Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Sackman Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 gardens
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 184 Newport School
    780 feet
  2. Joyful Tots Daycare Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Floyd Patterson Ballfields Park
    310 feet
  2. Green Valley Garden
    870 feet
  3. Abib Newborn Garden
    970 feet
Show all 7
  1. A Patch of Inspiration Garden
    1,040 feet
  2. Nehemiah Park
    1,150 feet
  3. Brownsville Playground
    1,240 feet
  4. Powell Street Garden
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. United Missionary Baptist Church House of worship
    740 feet
  2. Our Lady Mercy Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Fire and police

  1. Van Dyke I Police station
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,140 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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 Newport Street or Sackman Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.