55th Street & 19th Avenue

The three-way junction of 55th Street and 19th Avenue is in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 893 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Gravesend Park is 140 feet away, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School is 1,190 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave I, is about nine minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave I
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
890 feet
18 Av/55 St · B8
Within a walk
15 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
55th Street & 19th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave I, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Ave I F
    0.5 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. 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 18 Av/55 St, 890 feet away, for the B8.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 18 Av/55 St B8
    890 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6006 18th Avenue Gas station
    0.4 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
    1.8 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 April 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 893 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 833rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 431 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)
Borough Park
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 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 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 19th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 55th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-7PM

South side of 55th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Karlin Stolin School
    760 feet
  2. Yeshiva Imrei Chaim Viznitz School
    990 feet
  3. Talmud Torah Imrei Chaim School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,070 feet
Show all 6
  1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School
    1,190 feet
  2. P.S. 121 Nelson A. Rockefeller School
    1,260 feet
  3. Tots and Tykes Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gravesend Park
    140 feet
  2. Gravesend Park Playground
    550 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat.

Not on record for this corner: 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 19th Avenue or 55th 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.