65th Street & 21st Avenue

The four-way crossing of 65th Street and 21st Avenue is in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 3,377 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Bais Esther School 2 is 500 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Pkwy, is about four minutes on foot, for the N. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Pkwy
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
Bay Pkwy/65 St · B6
Within a walk
10 places
5 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
65th Street & 21st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Pkwy, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Pkwy N
    1,160 feet
    N

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 20 Av N
    1,180 feet
    N

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/65 St, 860 feet away, for the B6.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Pkwy/65 St B6
    860 feet
    B6

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 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, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 7021 Bay Parkway Gas station
    0.5 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
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,377 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 254th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,784 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11204
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bensonhurst
Elevation
35 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,100 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 1915 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 21st Avenue

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 21st Avenue

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

North side of 65th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

South side of 65th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 307753.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Romanesque Revival, and built between 1920 and 1921.

  1. Magen David Synagogue Designated landmark
    720 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Bais Esther School 2 School
    500 feet
  2. Yeshiva Ketana of Bensonhurst School
    950 feet
  3. Brooklyn Chinese American Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. United States Post Office-Parkville Station Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 6409 20th Avenue Older adult center
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 21st Avenue or 65th Street.

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