76th Street & 12th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 76th Street and 12th Avenue is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, and is also named Maria LaVache 9/11 Memorial Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Engine 284/Ladder 149 firehouse is 950 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bay Ridge Pkwy/12 Av, is 320 feet away for the B4. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Bay Ridge Pkwy/12 Av · B4
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
76th Street & 12th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Pkwy/12 Av, 320 feet away, for the B4.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Pkwy/12 Av B4
    320 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 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. 7310 New Utrecht Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two 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 foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

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
73 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Maria LaVache 9/11 Memorial Way, a co-naming enacted on December 21, 2004 (Local Law 63 of 2004).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 1930.

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 Maria LaVache 9/11 Memorial Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Avenue

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

West side of 12th Avenue

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

North side of 76th Street

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

South side of 76th Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Little Hands and Feet Daycare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  2. Thursday's Child Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    850 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Patrick O'Rourke Playground
    1,290 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 284/Ladder 149 Fire station
    950 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,050 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,150 feet
  3. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SuperFresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Avenue or 76th Street.

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