61st Street & Bay Parkway

The four-way crossing of 61st Street and Bay Parkway is in Mapleton-Midwood (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Athanasius Church is 120 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Pkwy, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Pkwy
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Bay Pkwy/61 St · B6
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
61st Street & Bay Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Pkwy, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay 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. Ave N F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. Bay Pkwy F
    0.4 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “People's Instinctive Travels: Homage to the Tribe” (2019) by Eamon Ore-Giron at the Bay Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Pkwy/61 St, 110 feet away, for the B6.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Pkwy/61 St B6
    110 feet
    B6

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5021 Bay Parkway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 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 four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11204
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43 and 44 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
62 and 66 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mapleton-Midwood (West)
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 14 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 61st Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 61st Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Bay Parkway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Bay Parkway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. St Athanasius Catholic Academy School
    280 feet
  2. Brooklyn's Daily Discovery Pre-K Center at 2202 60th Street Pre-K center
    320 feet
  3. Middle School of Innovation School
    320 feet
Show all 5
  1. Nachas Daycare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    510 feet
  2. P.S. 226 Alfred de B. Mason School
    770 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Athanasius Church House of worship
    120 feet
  2. Bensonhurst Jewish Community House of worship
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Moisha's Kosher Discount Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and 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 61st Street or Bay Parkway.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.