56th Street & 11th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 56th Street and 11th Avenue is in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Beth Israel Boro Park Congregation is 90 feet away. The nearest subway, Fort Hamilton Pkwy, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, 17 of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fort Hamilton Pkwy
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
56 St/11 Av · B16
Within a walk
23 places
17 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
56th Street & 11th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fort Hamilton Pkwy, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy N
    0.3 miles
    N

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. N …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. N …

Also within a walk

  1. 55 St D
    0.3 miles
    D
  2. 50 St D
    0.5 miles
    D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “There is Magic Underneath It All” (2019) by María Berrío at the Fort Hamilton Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 56 St/11 Av, 110 feet away, for the B16.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 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
    1,240 feet
  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 two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2023.

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
66 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 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and September 2025, 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 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of 56th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 56th Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Cuddlesome Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    210 feet
  2. Zichron Yehuda-Bais Simcha School
    1,010 feet
  3. Talmud Torah D'Rabinu Yoel School
    1,140 feet
Show all 6
  1. United Talmudical Academy of Boro Park Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,160 feet
  2. P.S. 105 the Blythebourne School
    1,170 feet
  3. Merrygochild 52 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Israel Boro Park Congregation House of worship
    90 feet
  2. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Scaturro Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three 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 56th 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.