12th Avenue & 57th Street

The four-way crossing of 12th Avenue and 57th Street is in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 431 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Guild for Exceptional Child-57th St is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, 55 St, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, 17 of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
55 St
1,290 feet · 5 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
57 St/12 Av · B16
Within a walk
23 places
17 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Avenue & 57th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 55 St, 1,290 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 55 St D
    1,290 feet
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Southbound
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 50 St D
    0.4 miles
    D
  2. Fort Hamilton Pkwy N
    0.4 miles
    N

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 57 St/12 Av, 110 feet away, for the B16.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 57 St/12 Av B16
    110 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1105 60th Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5115 15th Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2019

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 431 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,276th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 220 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11219
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
44
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Borough Park
Elevation
52 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2018 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 12th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of 57th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 57th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Weehive Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    490 feet
  2. Carrie Mastronardi Early Childhood Education Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    520 feet
  3. Guild for Exceptional Child-57th St School
    770 feet
Show all 6
  1. Tiny Hearts Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    830 feet
  2. Nurtury 58 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,110 feet
  3. Cuddlesome Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Frances de Chantal RC Church House of worship
    870 feet
  2. Beth Israel Boro Park Congregation House of worship
    1,000 feet
  3. Congregation Kehal Yeraim Chust Boro Park House of worship
    1,000 feet
Show all 4
  1. Toras Chaim Congregation House of worship
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Scaturro Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and seven 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 12th Avenue or 57th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.