7th Avenue & 16th Street

The four-way crossing of 7th Avenue and 16th Street is in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Memorial Baptist Church is 780 feet away. The nearest subway, 15 St-Prospect Park, is about seven minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them day care or pre-K sites, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
15 St-Prospect Park
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
7 Av/15 St · B67, B69
Within a walk
15 places
6 day care or pre-K sites, 5 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
7th Avenue & 16th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 15 St-Prospect Park, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 15 St-Prospect Park F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. 7 Av F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/15 St, 150 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/15 St B67, B69
    150 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 7th Avenue.

  • 43 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 14 St & 7 Ave 24 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 668 3rd Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
39
Police precinct
72
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Windsor Terrace-South Slope
Elevation
148 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 16th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 16th Street

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

East side of 7th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 7th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 73 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1885 and 1889.

  1. 14th Regiment Armory Designated landmark
    630 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Chickpeas Childcare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    90 feet
  2. Slope Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    430 feet
  3. Prospect Kids Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    820 feet
Show all 7
  1. Magnet School of Math, Science and Design Technology School
    840 feet
  2. Brooklyn Sandbox Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    890 feet
  3. Bumblebees R US Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
  4. Maven Valley Prep Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Detective Joseph Mayrose Park
    820 feet
  2. Butterfly Gardens Garden
    940 feet
  3. 6/15 Green Community Garden
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    780 feet
  2. Resurrection Coptic Catholic Church House of worship
    1,000 feet
  3. St John St Matthew Emanuel Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,180 feet
Show all 4
  1. Park Slope Jewish Center Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 16th Street or 7th Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.