71st Street & 11th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 71st Street and 11th Avenue is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, and is also named Rosa Casella Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bethany Lutheran Church is 480 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, two of them religious buildings.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fort Hamilton Pkwy
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
620 feet
Bay Ridge Av/11 Av · B64
Within a walk
3 places
2 religious buildings and 1 day care or pre-K site, within five minutes

Map

Layers
71st Street & 11th 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/11 Av, 620 feet away, for the B64.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Av/11 Av B64
    620 feet
    B64

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 11th Avenue.

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1105 60th Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2021

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
81 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rosa Casella Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

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, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rosa Casella Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 11th Avenue

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

West side of 11th Avenue

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

North side of 71st Street

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

South side of 71st Street

  • No parking 10 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.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethany Lutheran Church House of worship
    480 feet
  2. Coptic Orthodox Church of St George House of worship
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 11th Avenue or 71st Street.

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