Union Avenue & South 1st Street

Union Avenue and South 1st Street meet at a three-way junction in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Ten Eyck Garden is 200 feet away. The nearest subway, Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St, is about three minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 51 places to eat. About 3,200 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St
690 feet · 3 min on foot · G, L
Nearest bus stop
400 feet
Grand St/Union Av · Q54, Q59
Within a walk
18 places
6 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Avenue & South 1st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St, 690 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St G, L
    690 feet
    G L

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Hewes St J, M
    0.3 miles
    J M
  2. Broadway G
    0.3 miles
    G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Signs of Life” (2000) by Jackie Chang and “Personal Choice #5” (2023) by Chloë Bass at the Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand St/Union Av, 400 feet away, for the Q54 and Q59.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand St/Union Av Q54, Q59
    400 feet
    Q54 Q59

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q54 …
  2. Q59 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Union Avenue.

  • 64 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Stagg St & Union Ave 33 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 247 Union Avenue Gas station
    910 feet
  2. 462 Keap Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 260 South 4th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11211
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Williamsburg
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 100 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of South 1st Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of South 1st Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Union Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Romanesque Revival, and built between 1879 and 1881.

  1. Colored School No. 3, later Public School 69 Designated landmark
    540 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Two by Two Childcare Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  2. Nuestros Ninos Day Car 1 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet
  3. Bnos Chayil School
    1,200 feet
Show all 6
  1. Oitzerlech Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,240 feet
  2. Amazing Explorers Williamsburg Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,250 feet
  3. P.S. 319 Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ten Eyck Garden
    200 feet
  2. Lithuania Square
    400 feet
  3. Ten Eyck Plaza Playground
    570 feet
Show all 6
  1. Blue Playground
    1,170 feet
  2. Hooper Grove Garden
    1,290 feet
  3. Rodney Playground Center Park
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,220 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 places to eat and 24 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along South 1st Street or Union 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.