Union Street & Schenectady Avenue

Union Street and Schenectady Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 26 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Eastern Parkway Learning Center is 270 feet away, and St Mathew RC Church is 930 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
26 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
400 feet · 2 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Eastern Pkwy/Schenectady Av · B17
Within a walk
16 places
10 religious buildings, 2 libraries and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Street & Schenectady Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 400 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    400 feet
    3 4

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …

Also within a walk

  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Good Morning and Good Night” (2004) by Hugo Consuegra at the Crown Hts-Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Eastern Pkwy/Schenectady Av, 310 feet away, for the B17.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy/Schenectady Av B17
    310 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Schenectady Ave & President St 22 docks in all
    260 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 26 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2024

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
111 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1915 and 1923.

Since 2014 at least 8 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Autumn Blaze' Freeman maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Schenectady Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Schenectady Avenue

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

North side of Union Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Union Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 320961.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 2 libraries
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station

Schools and child care

  1. New Bridges Elementary School
    610 feet
  2. Highlights Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
  3. Congregation Ohr Menachem School
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Library
    260 feet
  2. Eastern Parkway Learning Center Library
    270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Mathew RC Church House of worship
    930 feet
  2. Trinity Cme Methodist Church House of worship
    1,060 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 38/Engine 234/Ladder 123 Fire station
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    890 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    1,180 feet
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Schenectady Avenue or Union Street.

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