Wilson Avenue & Cornelia Street

Wilson Avenue and Cornelia Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 106 Edward Everett Hale is 170 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Wilson Av/Cornelia St, is 120 feet away for the B60, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Wilson Av/Cornelia St · B60
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Wilson Avenue & Cornelia Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wilson Av/Cornelia St, 120 feet away, for the B60.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wilson Av/Cornelia St B60
    120 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Putnam Ave & Knickerbocker Ave 29 docks in all
    1,070 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 952 Wyckoff Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 342 Eldert Street Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1907 and 1928.

Since 2014 at least 5 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cornelia Street

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

South side of Cornelia Street

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

East side of Wilson Avenue

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

West side of Wilson Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Kreative Kare Day Care Center Preschool · Pre-K
    60 feet
  2. P.S. 106 Edward Everett Hale School
    170 feet
  3. Achievement First North Brooklyn Preparatory Charter School
    860 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 377 Alejandrina B. de Gautier School
    860 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Borinquen Community Garden
    820 feet
  2. Irving Square Park
    830 feet
  3. Bushwick Playground
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity United Presbyterian Church House of worship
    730 feet
  2. St Martin of Tours RC Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and ten food stores.

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cornelia Street or Wilson Avenue.

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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.