54th Street & 20th Avenue

The three-way junction of 54th Street and 20th Avenue is in Mapleton-Midwood (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 470 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Gravesend Park is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave I, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, seven of them schools, and one place to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave I
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,080 feet
50 St/20 Av · B11
Within a walk
13 places
7 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
54th Street & 20th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave I F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Bay Pkwy F
    0.5 miles
    F
  2. 18 Av F
    0.5 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Where the Sky Begins” (2018) by Kambui Olujimi at the Ave I station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 50 St/20 Av, 1,080 feet away, for the B11.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 50 St/20 Av B11
    1,080 feet
    B11

Next buses at this stop

  1. B11 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5021 Bay Parkway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 800 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.8 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 470 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,223rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 110 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11204
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
44
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mapleton-Midwood (West)
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 1920 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and May 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 20th Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of 54th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 54th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 121 Nelson A. Rockefeller School
    220 feet
  2. Shira Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    900 feet
  3. Toras Imecha Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    900 feet
Show all 10
  1. Bais Yaakov D'Chassidei Gur School
    940 feet
  2. Bais Yaakov D'Gur High School
    940 feet
  3. Barkai Yeshivah School
    1,030 feet
  4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School
    1,240 feet
  5. Yeshiva Prep High School
    1,280 feet
  6. Syrit Computer School Systems Trade or language school
    1,310 feet
  7. Cong Machna Shalva V School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gravesend Park
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change 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:

See every intersection along 20th Avenue or 54th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.