Union Street & New York Avenue

Union Street and New York Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. M a C a D E M Y is 270 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
990 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
New York Av/Union St · B44
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Street & New York Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av 3
    990 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    1,070 feet
    2 5
  2. Kingston Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Union St, 100 feet away, for the B44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Union St B44
    100 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Nostrand Ave 27 docks in all
    1,010 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
105 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of New York Avenue

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

West side of New York Avenue

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

North side of Union Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Union Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 307152 and 308112.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 118 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1900 and 1907.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    270 feet
  2. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    820 feet
  3. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    820 feet
Show all 5
  1. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Eastern Parkway School
    950 feet
  2. St Mark's Day School
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    920 feet
  2. Philadelphia Sabbath Cathedral Listed historic place
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and five 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 New York Avenue or Union 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.