66th Street & 12th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 66th Street and 12th Avenue is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, and is also named Annie Lautato's Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Christa McAuliffe School\I.S. 187 is 500 feet away. The nearest subway, Fort Hamilton Pkwy, is about seven minutes on foot, for the N. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them schools, and 12 places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
5 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fort Hamilton Pkwy
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
870 feet
Bay Ridge Av/12 Av · B64
Within a walk
11 places
5 schools, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
66th Street & 12th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fort Hamilton Pkwy, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy N
    0.4 miles
    N

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. N …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. 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 Bay Ridge Av/12 Av, 870 feet away, for the B64.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Av/12 Av B64
    870 feet
    B64

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 66th Street.

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1302 65th Street Gas station
    1,230 feet
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 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.

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

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 10
City Council district
43
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Dyker Heights
Elevation
71 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Annie Lautato's Corner, a co-naming enacted on November 10, 1994 (Local Law 45 of 1994).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Annie Lautato's Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

West side of 12th Avenue

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

North side of 66th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

South side of 66th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Renaissance Revival, and built between 1897 and 1899.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Nysarc - Ahrc Middle/High School
    140 feet
  2. The Christa McAuliffe School\I.S. 187 School
    500 feet
  3. District 20 Pre-K Center at 1258 65th Street Pre-K center
    690 feet
Show all 8
  1. Talmud Torah D'Chasidei Gur School
    750 feet
  2. P.S. 176 Ovington School
    950 feet
  3. Bay Ridge Ave. Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    960 feet
  4. Engineering Math and Science Academy Charter High School 2 School
    1,020 feet
  5. World of Wonders Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet

Health care

  1. Norwegian Christian Home and Health Center Nursing home or hospice
    890 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Regina Pacis Shrine Church House of worship
    230 feet
  2. Coptic Orthodox Church of St George House of worship
    890 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Scaturro Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. SuperFresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. HLBK Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Avenue or 66th Street.

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