Vandervoort Avenue & Jackson Street

Vandervoort Avenue and Jackson Street meet at a three-way junction in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Cooper Park is 1,030 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kingsland Av/Richardson St, is 0.4 miles away for the B24, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and one place to eat. Within 820 feet are 16 homes, mostly built in 1955, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
5 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.4 miles
Kingsland Av/Richardson St · B24
Within a walk
1 place
1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Vandervoort Avenue & Jackson Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingsland Av/Richardson St, 0.4 miles away, for the B24.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingsland Av/Richardson St B24
    0.4 miles
    B24

Next buses at this stop

  1. B24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Morgan Ave & Maspeth Ave 25 docks in all
    1,030 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Varick Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1039 Grand Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1074 Grand Street Charging for electric cars, four fast chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11211
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Williamsburg

The streets

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

Homes

Within 820 feet of this corner are 16 homes, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the common hackberry and the shingle oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Jackson Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-6PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cooper Park
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Jackson Street or Vandervoort Avenue.

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