12th Avenue & 70th Street

The four-way crossing of 12th Avenue and 70th Street is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Norwegian Christian Home and Health Center is 1,060 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bay Ridge Av/12 Av, is 360 feet away for the B64, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Bay Ridge Av/12 Av · B64
Within a walk
7 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Avenue & 70th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Av/12 Av, 360 feet away, for the B64.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Av/12 Av B64
    360 feet
    B64

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1302 65th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11228
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
38
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Dyker Heights
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 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
  • 9 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2014 and March 2026, 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 WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of 70th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 70th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 308873 and 321313.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Bay Ridge Ave. Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    450 feet
  2. P.S. 176 Ovington School
    650 feet
  3. Worldtots Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. Ring Around the Rosie Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
  2. Nysarc - Ahrc Middle/High School
    1,180 feet

Health care

  1. Norwegian Christian Home and Health Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Regina Pacis Shrine Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SuperFresh Supermarket
    790 feet
  2. Scaturro Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    830 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and 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 70th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.