Borough Park

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Borough Park has Sunset Park to the west, Kensington and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north and Bensonhurst to the south.

  • 1.45 square miles
  • 93,905 residents, 2020 Census
  • 259 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 6 bus routes

It grew from Blythebourne, a cottage colony that Electus Litchfield founded in 1887 and named with Scottish words for a happy home, and from the neighboring tract William H. Reynolds divided into 400 lots in 1902 and called Borough Park. The New Utrecht Avenue elevated line, now the D train, spurred growth after World War I, and by the mid-1920s Borough Park had taken in Blythebourne. Today it is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside Israel, served by shops and restaurants along 13th Avenue.

Sources: Borough Park history (Brooklyn Daily Eagle); Borough Park, Brooklyn (Wikipedia).

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Borough Park borders eight areas, and 14th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 32 of 259.

Street map of Borough Park, Brooklyn, outlined among Kensington, Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West), Mapleton-Midwood (West) and Dyker Heights, with its six subway stations and Dome Playground.KensingtonFlatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-ParkvilleMapleton-Midwood (West)Dyker HeightsBensonhurstSunset Park (Central)Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West)
  • Borough Park
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Fort Hamilton Pkwy lines D
  • 50 St lines D
  • 55 St lines D
  • Fort Hamilton Pkwy lines N
  • 18 Av lines F
  • 62 St lines D accessible

Getting around

Six subway stations and buses on six routes stop in or at the edge of Borough Park.

  • 6 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 6 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B8
  • B9
  • B11
  • B16
  • B35
  • B90

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,863 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.2 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 7 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 165 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
146
Turn calming
38
Accessible pedestrian signals
28
Safety Improvement Projects
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1
Enhanced crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 7,086 school-zone speed camera tickets at 15 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
14th Avenue & 49th Street, 1,141

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 93,905 residents in Borough Park, about 64,800 per square mile.

  • 25,521 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,091 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 7,781 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 69% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
2.2 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Dome Playground (1.2 acres) and DiGilio Playground (0.9 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
5,133 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and littleleaf linden
Street with the most corners
14th Avenue, with 32 of the area's 259
Height above sea level
From 41 feet at Cortelyou Road & Dahill Road to 91 feet at Fort Hamilton Parkway & 54th Street
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 81 schools and one library in Borough Park.

Public schools
12
Charter and private schools
69
Library
Borough Park Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, four bike-share stations stand in Borough Park.

  • 4 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 264 major felonies at places in Borough Park.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Borough Park

  • 296 major felonies in 2024
  • 888 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Borough Park, the NYPD recorded another 90 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 3.8 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Borough Park.

Police precincts
66th (most of the area), 68th, 62nd, 70th
Major felonies recorded at places in Borough Park, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 126 major felonies at places in Borough Park, against 128 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.