Throop Avenue & Ellery Street

Throop Avenue and Ellery Street meet at a three-way junction in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Beginning With Children Charter School is 440 feet away, and Sumner Playground is 620 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing Av, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
1,170 feet · 4 min on foot · J, M
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Throop Av/Park Av · B43
Within a walk
19 places
5 religious buildings, 5 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Throop Avenue & Ellery Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 1,170 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av J, M
    1,170 feet
    J M

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Lorimer St J, M
    0.4 miles
    J M
  2. Flushing Av G
    0.4 miles
    G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Migration” (2006) by Robin Holder at the Flushing Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Throop Av/Park Av, 180 feet away, for the B43.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Throop Av/Park Av B43
    180 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Throop Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Throop Ave & Myrtle Ave 21 docks in all
    1,040 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 212 Harrison Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 7 Marcus Garvey Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.4 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 1962 and 1992.

Since 2014 at least 201 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and December 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ellery Street

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

South side of Ellery Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Throop Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 college
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Beginning With Children Charter School
    440 feet
  2. P.S. 373 - Brooklyn Transition Center School
    440 feet
  3. Tompkins Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
Show all 8
  1. P.S. 059 the Dawn Best School
    610 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Bed Stuy 2 School
    610 feet
  3. Uta 110 School
    1,070 feet
  4. Brooklyn Kindergarten Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet
  5. Boricua College - Brooklyn College
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Charlie's Place Playground
    400 feet
  2. Sumner Playground
    620 feet
  3. Bartlett Playground
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. Love Garden - Sumner Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. All Saints RC Church House of worship
    690 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Tompkins Community Center
    1,040 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 230 Fire station
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Green Corner Fish & Farmers Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,290 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and six 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ellery Street or Throop Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.