Tompkins Avenue & Ellery Street

Tompkins Avenue and Ellery Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Beginning With Children Charter School is 580 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing Av, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, ten of them schools, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
1,300 feet · 5 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Tompkins Av/Ellery St · B43
Within a walk
28 places
10 schools, 6 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Tompkins Avenue & Ellery Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 1,300 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av G
    1,300 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle-Willoughby Avs G
    0.3 miles
    G
  2. Flushing Av J, M
    0.4 miles
    J M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Tompkins Av/Ellery St, 40 feet away, for the B43.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tompkins Av/Ellery St B43
    40 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Tompkins Avenue.

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Tompkins Ave & Hopkins St 19 docks in all
    340 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
    0.6 miles
  2. 28-17 42nd Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017

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
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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 1962 and 1992.

Since 2014 at least 133 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ellery Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Ellery Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Tompkins Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Tompkins Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 10 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Tompkins Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    390 feet
  2. Beginning With Children Charter School
    580 feet
  3. P.S. 373 - Brooklyn Transition Center School
    580 feet
Show all 13
  1. P.S. 297 Abraham Stockton School
    700 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter-Myrtle Ave Middle School
    700 feet
  3. Per Scholas Trade or language school
    830 feet
  4. The Williamsburg Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    880 feet
  5. P.S. 368 School
    880 feet
  6. Success Academy Charter School - Bed Stuy 1 School
    880 feet
  7. Beginning With Children Charter School 2 School
    890 feet
  8. Bais Ruchel High School
    1,160 feet
  9. P.S. 059 the Dawn Best School
    1,290 feet
  10. Success Academy Charter School - Bed Stuy 2 School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Charlie's Place Playground
    220 feet
  2. Stockton Playground
    770 feet
  3. Bartlett Playground
    930 feet
Show all 5
  1. Senior Retreat Garden - Tompkins Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,080 feet
  2. Sumner Playground
    1,310 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Pfizer Sites Development Public space
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Free Gift Baptist Church House of worship
    910 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Tompkins Community Center
    570 feet
  2. Marcy Community Center
    930 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 230 Fire station
    360 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    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 12 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 of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ellery Street or Tompkins Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.