Taaffe Place & Little Nassau Street

Taaffe Place and Little Nassau Street meet at a three-way junction in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Classon Playground is 500 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flushing Av/Kent Av, is 380 feet away for the B57, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and two places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Flushing Av/Kent Av · B57
Within a walk
15 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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Taaffe Place & Little Nassau Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Kent Av, 380 feet away, for the B57.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Kent Av B57
    380 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wallabout St & Kent Ave 23 docks in all
    800 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 711 Kent Avenue Gas station
    1,210 feet
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
33
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 1988 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 77 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2018 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Little Nassau Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Little Nassau Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Taaffe Place

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Nachlas Tzvi D'Krula Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    590 feet
  2. Bnos Spinka Boys School
    700 feet
  3. Yeshiva Bnos Israel School
    810 feet
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  1. Gan Bnos Yisroel Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    970 feet
  2. School Based Child Care School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    970 feet
  3. P.S./I.S. 157 the Benjamin Franklin Health & Science Academy School
    1,000 feet
  4. Jolly Baby Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,040 feet
  5. Child care center at 77-87 Wallabout Street School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,240 feet
  6. Hychel Hatorah School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Classon Playground
    500 feet
  2. Taaffe Playground
    560 feet
  3. Steuben Playground
    790 feet
Show all 4
  1. Classon Triangle
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. One Stop Kosher Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Little Nassau Street or Taaffe Place.

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.