Vermont Street & Hegeman Avenue

Vermont Street and Hegeman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sheffield Garden is 1,090 feet away. The nearest subway, Pennsylvania Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, five of them religious buildings, and six places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1923 and 1930, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
9 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Pennsylvania Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
620 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Hegeman Av · B20
Within a walk
13 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Vermont Street & Hegeman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Pennsylvania Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Van Siclen Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Urban Garden Rail” (2017) by Saya Woolfalk at the Pennsylvania Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Hegeman Av, 620 feet away, for the B20.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Hegeman Av B20
    620 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hegeman Ave & Vermont St 14 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1939 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    1,020 feet
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1923 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Vermont Street

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

West side of Vermont Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 213 New Lots School
    290 feet
  2. Strawberry Patch Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  3. Collegiate Academy for Mathematics and Personal Awareness Charter School
    830 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 36 School
    1,080 feet
  2. East New York Family Academy School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linden Park
    680 feet
  2. Sheffield Garden
    1,090 feet
  3. Linden Park Playground
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hegeman Avenue or Vermont 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.