70th Street & 10th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 70th Street and 10th Avenue is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bethany Lutheran Church is 660 feet away. The nearest subway, Fort Hamilton Pkwy, is about nine minutes on foot, for the N. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and 13 places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1915 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fort Hamilton Pkwy
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Bay Ridge Av/10 Av · B64
Within a walk
3 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 library and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
70th Street & 10th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fort Hamilton Pkwy, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy N
    0.5 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/10 Av, 350 feet away, for the B64.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Av/10 Av B64
    350 feet
    B64

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 10th Avenue.

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 802 65th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11228
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
38
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Dyker Heights
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and May 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 10th Avenue

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

West side of 10th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 70th Street

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

South side of 70th Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    450 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. McKinley Park Library
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethany Lutheran Church House of worship
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. HLBK Supermarket Supermarket
    1,240 feet
  2. SuperFresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. EZ Fresh Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,280 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 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 nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 10th Avenue or 70th Street.

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