16th Avenue & 66th Street

The four-way crossing of 16th Avenue and 66th Street is in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and is also named Assistant Principal Linda A. Romano Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. J.H.S. 227 Edward B. Shallow is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, 71 St, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
71 St
1,240 feet · 5 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
60 St/16 Av · B9
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
16th Avenue & 66th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 71 St, 1,240 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 71 St D
    1,240 feet
    D

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 62 St/New Utrecht Av D, N
    0.3 miles
    D N
  2. 18 Av N
    0.3 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Flora of Bensonhurst” (2012) by Joan Linder at the 71 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 60 St/16 Av, 0.3 miles away, for the B9.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 60 St/16 Av B9 · Countdown sign
    0.3 miles
    B9
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 7310 New Utrecht Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 5115 15th Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11204
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bensonhurst
Elevation
47 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Assistant Principal Linda A. Romano Place, a co-naming enacted on August 10, 2015 (Local Law 76 of 2015).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Assistant Principal Linda A. Romano Place.

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 November 2018 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 16th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 16th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of 66th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 66th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 227 Edward B. Shallow School
    260 feet
  2. Tiferes Miriam School for Girls School
    1,120 feet
  3. Yaldeinu School (The) School
    1,180 feet
Show all 6
  1. Bais Sarah School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,300 feet
  2. Cong. Machne Chaim Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet
  3. Congregation Machne Chaim School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lt. Joseph Petrosino Park
    1,080 feet
  2. Lt. Joseph Petrosino Park Playground
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Breadberry Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 16th Avenue or 66th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.