59th Street & 11th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 59th Street and 11th Avenue is in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church is 240 feet away. The nearest subway, Fort Hamilton Pkwy, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fort Hamilton Pkwy
760 feet · 3 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
60 St/11 Av · B9
Within a walk
13 places
8 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
59th Street & 11th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fort Hamilton Pkwy, 760 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy N
    760 feet
    N

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 62 St/New Utrecht Av D, N
    0.5 miles
    D N
  2. 55 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 60 St/11 Av, 350 feet away, for the B9.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 60 St/11 Av B9
    350 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2018
  • Turn calming, July 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11219
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
43 and 44 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Borough Park
Elevation
57 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1932.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the hawthorn.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 and June 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 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of 59th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 59th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Zichron Yehuda-Bais Simcha School
    390 feet
  2. P.S. 105 the Blythebourne School
    650 feet
  3. Cuddlesome Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. Wise Kidz Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  2. B'Above Worldwide Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

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

Supermarkets

  1. Scaturro Supermarket Supermarket
    1,240 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 17 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 59th 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.