Union Street & Troy Avenue

Union Street and Troy Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 629 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. St Johns Place Post Office is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
990 feet · 4 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Troy Av/Eastern Pkwy · B17
Within a walk
18 places
9 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Street & Troy Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    990 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
    0.3 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 Troy Av/Eastern Pkwy, 250 feet away, for the B17.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Troy Ave 24 docks in all
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 629 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,042nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 427 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
107 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1912 and 1923.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

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

East side of Troy Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM

West side of Troy Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Union Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Union Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 319977 and 328302.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 libraries
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    570 feet
  2. Little Angel Day Care Center VI Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    740 feet
  3. Beis Chaya Muska School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    800 feet
Show all 6
  1. Chanoch Lenaar School
    1,020 feet
  2. United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Annex School
    1,140 feet
  3. New Bridges Elementary School
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Library
    1,030 feet
  2. Eastern Parkway Learning Center Library
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. St Johns Place Post Office
    970 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and 11 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 nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Troy Avenue or Union Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.