Stuyvesant Avenue & Van Buren Street

Stuyvesant Avenue and Van Buren Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jesse Owens Playground is 150 feet away, and Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School is 190 feet away. The nearest subway, Kosciuszko St, is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kosciuszko St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Lafayette Av/Stuyvesant Av · B38
Within a walk
23 places
10 religious buildings, 6 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Stuyvesant Avenue & Van Buren Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kosciuszko St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kosciuszko St J
    0.4 miles
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle Av J, M, Z
    0.4 miles
    J M Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Euphorbias” (2002) by Ronald Calloway at the Kosciuszko St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lafayette Av/Stuyvesant Av, 360 feet away, for the B38.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lafayette Av/Stuyvesant Av B38
    360 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lexington Ave & Stuyvesant Ave 20 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 775 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.

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
49 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1931.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and July 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Stuyvesant Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Van Buren Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

South side of Van Buren Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Queen Anne. They were built between 1887 and 1893.

  1. Antioch Baptist Church, Church House Designated landmark
    580 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School
    190 feet
  2. The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance School
    190 feet
  3. Whitelaw Reid Academy of Arts and Business School
    190 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 081 Thaddeus Stevens School
    860 feet
  2. Madiba Prep Middle School
    1,130 feet
  3. P.S. 026 Jesse Owens School
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jesse Owens Playground
    150 feet
  2. Eleanor Roosevelt Playground
    840 feet
  3. Bedford Stuyvesant Community Garden (Lola Bryant Comm. Garden) Garden
    1,210 feet
Show all 4
  1. Lafayette Playground
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stuyvesant Gardens I Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Antioch Baptist Church Landmark
    530 feet
  2. Refuge Church of God House of worship
    1,160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Roosevelt Community Center
    1,260 feet
  2. Older adult center at 400 Hart Street Older adult center
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Stuyvesant Avenue or Van Buren 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.