7th Avenue & 20th Street

The four-way crossing of 7th Avenue and 20th Street is in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Detective Joseph Mayrose Park is 610 feet away, and Magnet School of Math, Science and Design Technology is 970 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 7 Av/19 St, is 390 feet away for the B67 and B69, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them schools, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
310 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
7 Av/19 St · B67, B69
Within a walk
10 places
6 schools, 1 garden and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
7th Avenue & 20th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/19 St, 390 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/19 St B67, B69
    390 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 20th Street and 7th Avenue.

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 6 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 7 Ave & 20 St 20 docks in all
    80 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 310 feet by car along the streets.

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
38 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
72
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Windsor Terrace-South Slope
Elevation
143 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 2 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and September 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 20th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-3PM

South side of 20th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 13 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of 7th Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 7th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 088 Peter Rouget School
    640 feet
  2. P.S. K053 School
    640 feet
  3. New Voices School of Academic & Creative Arts School
    910 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 295 School
    910 feet
  2. Magnet School of Math, Science and Design Technology School
    970 feet
  3. Mesilas Bais Yaakov School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Detective Joseph Mayrose Park
    610 feet
  2. Butterfly Gardens Garden
    650 feet
  3. Slope Park Playground
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 20th 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.