Strauss Street & Newport Street

Strauss Street and Newport Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Riverdale Avenue Community School is 600 feet away, and Gethsemane Garden is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Saratoga Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
15 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Saratoga Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
E 98 St/Willmohr St · B15
Within a walk
17 places
11 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Strauss Street & Newport Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Saratoga Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Saratoga Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Chandelier” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Saratoga Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 98 St/Willmohr St, 590 feet away, for the B15.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 98 St/Willmohr St B15
    590 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Herzl St & Newport St 12 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 24 Dumont Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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 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 in 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2021 and December 2024, 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
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Strauss Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Strauss Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Riverdale Avenue Community School
    600 feet
  2. Riverdale Avenue Middle School
    600 feet
  3. P.S. 165 Ida Posner School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gethsemane Garden
    1,140 feet
  2. Betsy Head Park
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. Schulman and Schachne Institute for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congrectional El Verbo Church House of worship
    510 feet
  2. New Life Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    890 feet
  3. Peoples Baptist Church House of worship
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Green Village Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Newport Street or Strauss Street.

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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.