Stuyvesant Avenue & Pulaski Street

Stuyvesant Avenue and Pulaski Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Roosevelt II development. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. John the Baptist Community Garden is 850 feet away, and Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Myrtle Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the J, M and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
20 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Myrtle Av
1,190 feet · 5 min on foot · J, M, Z
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
De Kalb Av/Stuyvesant Av · B38
Within a walk
21 places
8 religious buildings, 5 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Stuyvesant Avenue & Pulaski Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Myrtle Av, 1,190 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Myrtle Av J, M, Z
    1,190 feet
    J M Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
3 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
  3. Z …
Manhattan
3 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
  3. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Kosciuszko St J
    0.4 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Jammin' Under the EL” (1999) by Verna Hart at the Myrtle Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is De Kalb Av/Stuyvesant Av, 370 feet away, for the B38.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. De Kalb Av/Stuyvesant Av B38
    370 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Stuyvesant Ave & Hart St 27 docks in all
    220 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    1,070 feet
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2023
  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
60 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1951 and 1982.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Roosevelt II development.

Since 2014 at least 42 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 90 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Pulaski Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Pulaski Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

East side of Stuyvesant Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Stuyvesant Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 081 Thaddeus Stevens School
    570 feet
  2. Wiser Choice Learning Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  3. Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School
    1,110 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance School
    1,110 feet
  2. Whitelaw Reid Academy of Arts and Business School
    1,110 feet
  3. Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Eleanor Roosevelt Playground
    590 feet
  2. Senior Garden - Roosevelt Houses (NYCHA ) Garden
    680 feet
  3. John the Baptist Community Garden
    850 feet
Show all 5
  1. Beattie Square
    860 feet
  2. Jesse Owens Playground
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John the Baptist RC Church House of worship
    840 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Roosevelt Community Center
    180 feet
  2. Older adult center at 400 Hart Street Older adult center
    180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Pulaski Street or Stuyvesant 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.