79th Street & 13th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 79th Street and 13th Avenue is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, and is also named Andrew Torregrossa Jr. 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. Dyker Library is 910 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 13 Av/79 St, is 100 feet away for the B64, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
8 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/79 St · B64
Within a walk
8 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
79th Street & 13th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 13 Av/79 St, 100 feet away, for the B64.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 13 Av/79 St B64
    100 feet
    B64

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 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. 1414 86th Street Gas station
    0.5 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
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 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
47 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Andrew Torregrossa Jr. Way, a co-naming enacted on October 2, 2012 (Local Law 48 of 2012).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Andrew Torregrossa Jr. Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 13th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 1PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-1PM

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

North side of 79th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 79th Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 304529 and 309169.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Thursday's Child Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    710 feet
  2. Saint Bernadette School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Patrick O'Rourke Playground
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dyker Library
    910 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Dyker Heights Post Office
    1,240 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 284/Ladder 149 Fire station
    1,110 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    470 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    510 feet
  3. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,250 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 16 places to eat and nine 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 79th 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.