61st Street & Dahill Road

The three-way junction of 61st Street and Dahill Road is in Mapleton-Midwood (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 226 Alfred de B. Mason is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave N, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave N
660 feet · 3 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
McDonald Av/24 Av · B90
Within a walk
9 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
61st Street & Dahill Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave N, 660 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave N F
    660 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave P F
    0.4 miles
    F
  2. Bay Pkwy N
    0.5 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Push/Pull” (2018) by Lisa Sigal at the Ave N station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is McDonald Av/24 Av, 540 feet away, for the B90.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. McDonald Av/24 Av B90
    540 feet
    B90

Next buses at this stop

  1. B90 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2524 65th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11204
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
44
Police precinct
62 and 66 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mapleton-Midwood (West)
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 61st Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 61st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Dahill Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 library
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 226 Alfred de B. Mason School
    860 feet
  2. Starting Point Services for Children Preschool
    880 feet
  3. Supreme Evaluation Preschool
    880 feet
Show all 5
  1. Lingua Prime NY Trade or language school
    1,160 feet
  2. Yeshivat Shaare Torah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dahill Triangle
    250 feet
  2. Samuel Goldberg Triangle
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ryder Library
    980 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bensonhurst Jewish Community House of worship
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 61st Street or Dahill Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.