14th Avenue & Benson Avenue

The three-way junction of 14th Avenue and Benson Avenue is in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 260 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Dyker Beach Park is 70 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 14 Av/Benson Av, is 50 feet away for the B64, X28 and X38, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and three places to eat.

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14th Avenue & Benson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 14 Av/Benson Av, 50 feet away, for the B64, X28 and X38.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 14 Av/Benson Av B64, X28, X38 · Shelter
    50 feet
    B64 X28 X38
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …
  2. X28 …
  3. X38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Bay 8th Street & Belt Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1414 86th Street Gas station
    1,050 feet
  2. 1763 86th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.7 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2019
  • Turn calming, November 2021

In 2025, 260 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,528th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 61 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11228
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
50
Police precinct
62 and 68 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bath Beach
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and November 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 14th Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Benson Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Benson Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 229 Dyker School
    340 feet
  2. Purple Crayon Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dyker Beach Park
    70 feet
  2. Dyker Playground
    670 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and four 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 nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

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.