77th Street & 21st Avenue

The four-way crossing of 77th Street and 21st Avenue is in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and is also named Angelo “Chubby” Campanella Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Magen David Yeshivah High School is 1,240 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bay Ridge Pkwy/21 Av, is 630 feet away for the B4, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and three places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Bay Ridge Pkwy/21 Av · B4
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
77th Street & 21st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Pkwy/21 Av, 630 feet away, for the B4.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Pkwy/21 Av B4
    630 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1626 Stillwell Avenue Gas station
    0.3 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 eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bensonhurst
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Angelo “Chubby” Campanella Way, a co-naming enacted on July 9, 2014 (Local Law 34 of 2014).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1923 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese pagoda tree and the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Angelo “Chubby” Campanella Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 70 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and December 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 21st Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 21st Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 21st Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY SATURDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 21st Avenue

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

East side of 77th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of 77th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 77th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 77th Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 426204.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Sinai Academic Center School
    930 feet
  2. Daisy's Fun House II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet
  3. Brooklyn Elite Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Magen David Yeshivah High School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Seth Low Playground/ Bealin Square Park
    1,010 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 7802 Bay Parkway Older adult center
    1,060 feet
  2. Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Community center · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • 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 21st 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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.