59th Street & 12th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 59th Street and 12th 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. Bnos Perel is 900 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 19 public places, ten of them religious buildings. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fort Hamilton Pkwy
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
60 St/12 Av · B9
Within a walk
19 places
10 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
59th Street & 12th 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. 62 St/New Utrecht Av D, N
    0.3 miles
    D N
  2. 55 St D
    0.3 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/12 Av, 340 feet away, for the B9.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 60 St/12 Av B9
    340 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 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
    1,040 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
    1.8 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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2019

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
56 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of 12th Avenue

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

West side of 12th Avenue

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

North side of 59th Street

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

South side of 59th Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. B 'above Worldwide Institute Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
  2. Bnos Perel School
    900 feet
  3. Nurtury 58 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    970 feet
Show all 8
  1. Weehive Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,010 feet
  2. Carrie Mastronardi Early Childhood Education Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  3. Zichron Yehuda-Bais Simcha School
    1,170 feet
  4. Mount Early Bloomers Preschool
    1,280 feet
  5. Guild for Exceptional Child-57th St School
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,020 feet
  2. St Frances de Chantal RC Church House of worship
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 5901 13th Avenue Older adult center
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Scaturro Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th 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.