12th Avenue & Chester Avenue

The four-way crossing of 12th Avenue and Chester Avenue is in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 208 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. United Talmudical Academy-Boro Park is 930 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
12 Av/Chester Av · B16
Within a walk
10 places
6 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Avenue & Chester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 12 Av/Chester Av, 100 feet away, for the B16.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 12 Av/Chester Av B16
    100 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 12th Avenue.

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Chester Ave & 12 Ave 21 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at 11th Avenue & 18th Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 3437 Fort Hamilton Parkway Gas station
    530 feet
  2. 5115 15th Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 208 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,616th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 94 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
39
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
67 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,200 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 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 12th Avenue

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 12th Avenue

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Chester Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Chester Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Kesser Malka School
    930 feet
  2. United Talmudical Academy-Boro Park School
    930 feet
  3. Mesivta Nesivas Hatalmud School
    960 feet
Show all 7
  1. Yeshiva Ohr Yoseph School
    1,070 feet
  2. Little Roses Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,120 feet
  3. Gan Yisroel School
    1,180 feet
  4. P.S. 230 Doris L. Cohen School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Albemarle Playground
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Congregation Chevra Linath Hazedeck Listed historic place
    690 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. KRM Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Avenue or Chester Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.