7th Avenue & 72nd Street at 72nd Street Pedestrian Overpass

The four-way crossing of 7th Avenue, 72nd Street and 72nd Street Pedestrian Overpass is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, and is also named Anthony Mondello Triangle by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Bay Ridge United Presbyterian Church is 1,230 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 8 Av/73 St, is 260 feet away for the B70, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them schools, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
8 Av/73 St · B70
Within a walk
7 places
2 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
7th Avenue & 72nd Street at 72nd Street Pedestrian Overpass Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 8 Av/73 St, 260 feet away, for the B70.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 8 Av/73 St B70
    260 feet
    B70

Next buses at this stop

  1. B70 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 6 Ave & 74 St 12 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6423 7th Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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

This corner is also named Anthony Mondello Triangle, a co-naming enacted on December 30, 1977 (Local Law 101 of 1977).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 900 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 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Anthony Mondello Triangle.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 72nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 72nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

East side of 7th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 7th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Ralph A. Fabrizio School
    1,000 feet
  2. Worldtots Preschool · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  3. J.H.S. 259 William McKinley School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McKinley Park
    350 feet
  2. McKinley Park Playground
    960 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge United Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 7201 8th Avenue Older adult center
    180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. HLBK Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. EZ Fresh Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Fei Long Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 72nd Street, 72nd Street Pedestrian Overpass or 7th Avenue.

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