77th Street & 13th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 77th Street and 13th Avenue is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, and is also named Firefighter Joey Graffagnino Place 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. Lefferts Park Baptist Church is 1,030 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 13 Av/77 St, is 100 feet away for the B64, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
13 Av/77 St · B64
Within a walk
6 places
3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 religious buildings, within five minutes

Map

Layers
77th Street & 13th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 13 Av/77 St, 100 feet away, for the B64.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 13 Av/77 St B64
    100 feet
    B64

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 7310 New Utrecht Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1763 86th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    1 mile

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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

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
51 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter Joey Graffagnino Place, a co-naming enacted on October 10, 2008 (Local Law 48 of 2008).

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 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter Joey Graffagnino Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

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

East side of 13th Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of 13th Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of 77th Street

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

South side of 77th Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 302953 and 319256.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings

Schools and child care

  1. Thursday's Child Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    190 feet
  2. Little Hands and Feet Daycare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
  3. LPBC UPK Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Lefferts Park Baptist Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    80 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    100 feet
  3. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SuperFresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 15 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 13th Avenue or 77th 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.