55th Street & 11th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 55th Street and 11th Avenue is in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, 55 St, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, 17 of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
55 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
56 St/11 Av · B16
Within a walk
26 places
17 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
55th Street & 11th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 55 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 55 St D
    0.3 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy N
    0.3 miles
    N
  2. 50 St D
    0.4 miles
    D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 56 St/11 Av, 370 feet away, for the B16.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 56 St/11 Av B16
    370 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1105 60th Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5115 15th Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 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 October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11219
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
44
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Borough Park
Elevation
73 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2014 and January 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 11th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 11th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of 55th Street

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

South side of 55th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Cuddlesome Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    50 feet
  2. Talmud Torah D'Rabinu Yoel School
    880 feet
  3. United Talmudical Academy of Boro Park Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    900 feet
Show all 8
  1. Merrygochild 52 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,030 feet
  2. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet
  3. Zichron Yehuda-Bais Simcha School
    1,270 feet
  4. Congregation Ohr Nerov Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,290 feet
  5. P.S. 160 William T. Sampson School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rappaport Playground
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Israel Boro Park Congregation House of worship
    320 feet
  2. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,180 feet
  3. Congregation Kehal Yeraim Chust Boro Park House of worship
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Scaturro Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 11th Avenue or 55th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.