21st Avenue & 21st Drive

The three-way junction of 21st Avenue and 21st Drive is in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bensonhurst Park is 60 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bath Av/21 Av, is 1,050 feet away for the B64, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and four places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1948 and 1949, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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21st Avenue & 21st Drive Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bath Av/21 Av, 1,050 feet away, for the B64.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bath Av/21 Av B64 · Shelter
    1,050 feet
    B64
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2061 Bath Avenue Gas station
    1,180 feet
  2. 1493 Shore Parkway Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    800 feet
  3. 8949 Bay Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four 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 December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
47
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bath Beach
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1948 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 90 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 21st Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 21st Drive

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 21st Drive

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bensonhurst Park
    60 feet
  2. Bensonhurst Park Playground
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,080 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Ceasar's Bay Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, 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:

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