61st Street & 11th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 61st Street and 11th Avenue is in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Zichron Yehuda-Bais Simcha is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Fort Hamilton Pkwy, is about a minute on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fort Hamilton Pkwy
220 feet · 1 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
60 St/11 Av · B9
Within a walk
7 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
61st Street & 11th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fort Hamilton Pkwy, 220 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy N
    220 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. 8 Av N
    0.5 miles
    N

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, 360 feet away, for the B9.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 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. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
43 and 44 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Borough Park
Elevation
58 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 11th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 11th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of 61st Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of 61st Street

  • No parking 18 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Zichron Yehuda-Bais Simcha School
    940 feet
  2. B'Above Worldwide Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  3. P.S. 105 the Blythebourne School
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    530 feet
  2. Beth Israel Boro Park Congregation House of worship
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Scaturro Supermarket Supermarket
    700 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 13 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 61st 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.