79th Street & 20th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 79th Street and 20th Avenue is in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sinai Academic Center is 370 feet away. The nearest subway, 20 Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the D. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1927, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
5 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
20 Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
1,150 feet
Bay Ridge Pkwy/20 Av · B4
Within a walk
4 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
79th Street & 20th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 20 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 20 Av D
    0.4 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Southbound
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 79 St D
    0.5 miles
    D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Kaleidoscope” (2012) by Odili Donald Odita at the 20 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Pkwy/20 Av, 1,150 feet away, for the B4.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Pkwy/20 Av B4
    1,150 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 1763 86th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2015 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 20th Avenue

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

West side of 20th Avenue

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

North side of 79th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM

South side of 79th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Daisy's Fun House II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    220 feet
  2. Sinai Academic Center School
    370 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 20th Ave Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Jmart Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, 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 20th Avenue or 79th Street.

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