78th Street & Quentin Road

The five-way junction of 78th Street and Quentin Road is in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,028 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Brooklyn School of Inquiry is 720 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about seven minutes on foot, for the N. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Stillwell Av/Quentin Rd · B4
Within a walk
13 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
78th Street & Quentin Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Kings Hwy N
    0.3 miles
    N

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. N …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. N …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Stillwell Av/Quentin Rd, 50 feet away, for the B4.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Stillwell Av/Quentin Rd B4
    50 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 Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1626 Stillwell Avenue Gas station
    570 feet
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 8949 Bay Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,028 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 745th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 432 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bensonhurst
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1953.

Since 2014 at least 19 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2014 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 23rd Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 23rd Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of 78th Street

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

South side of 78th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Quentin Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Quentin Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Stillwell Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Stillwell Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 parks
  • 1 community center
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Gold Material BK Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    560 feet
  2. Little Scholars Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    580 feet
  3. Brooklyn School of Inquiry School
    720 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Academy of Talented Scholars School
    720 feet
  2. Magen David Yeshivah High School
    730 feet
  3. Brooklyn Elite Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Seth Low Playground/ Bealin Square Park
    880 feet
  2. Ketchum Triangle
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Highlawn Library
    550 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Community center · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1787 Stillwell Avenue Older adult center
    880 feet
  3. Older adult center at 7802 Bay Parkway Older adult center
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. West 6 Fruits & Vegetable Store Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 23rd Avenue, 78th Street, Quentin Road or Stillwell Avenue.

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