Saratoga Avenue & Bainbridge Street

Saratoga Avenue and Bainbridge Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 137 Rachel Jean Mitchell is 160 feet away. The nearest subway, Chauncey St, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Chauncey St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Saratoga Av/Bainbridge St · B7
Within a walk
11 places
5 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Saratoga Avenue & Bainbridge Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Chauncey St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    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. Halsey St J
    0.3 miles
    J
  2. Rockaway Av C
    0.4 miles
    C

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saratoga Av/Bainbridge St, 100 feet away, for the B7.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saratoga Av/Bainbridge St B7
    100 feet
    B7

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Decatur St & Saratoga Ave 21 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, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 419 Stuyvesant Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  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 eight crashes at this corner, more 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 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73 and 81 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
40 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1903 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bainbridge Street

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

South side of Bainbridge Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Saratoga Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Saratoga Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 137 Rachel Jean Mitchell School
    160 feet
  2. Stuyvesant Heights Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Saratoga Park
    860 feet
  2. Marion Hopkinson Playground
    1,060 feet
  3. 721 Decatur Street Community Garden
    1,060 feet
Show all 4
  1. Sumpter Street Community Garden
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Journey Church of Brooklyn House of worship
    170 feet
  2. Westminster Bethany Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bainbridge Street or Saratoga 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.