7th Avenue & 81st Street
The four-way crossing of 7th Avenue and 81st Street is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, and is also named Lt. William E. Coffey Square by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The stele “Coffey Square” is 80 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 7 Av/79 St, is 570 feet away for the B16, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/79 St, 570 feet away, for the B16.
- 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
- 7 Av/79 St B16570 feetB16
Next buses at this stop
- B16 …
Cycling
A marked bike lane runs on 7th Avenue.
- 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
Nearest bike-share station
- Fort Hamilton Pkwy & 85 St 14 docks in all0.3 miles
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 1,030 feet by car along the streets.
- 8202 7th Avenue Gas station430 feet
- 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers0.6 miles
- 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars1.5 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.
The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.
What the city has done here
- Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2020
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
- 81 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Lt. William E. Coffey Square, a co-naming enacted on December 29, 1965 (Local Law 100 of 1965).
The streets
- Up to four travel lanes
- A designated truck route
- Two of the streets are one-way
Homes
About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1921 and 1930.
Trees
NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the red maple.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Lt. William E. Coffey Square.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 37 signs on these blocks
- 8 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and October 2023, and the sign on the street decides.
East side of 7th Avenue
- No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
- No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
West side of 7th Avenue
- No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
- No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
- No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
North side of 81st Street
- No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
- No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
South side of 81st Street
- No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
Monuments and public art
How landmarks are placedThe City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Coffey Square.
- Coffey Square Stele, 197080 feet
Schools, parks and places within a walk
How places are listedSeven public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 2 day care or pre-K sites
- 2 parks
- 1 playground
- 1 religious building
- 1 school
Schools and child care
- P.S. 127 McKinley Park School740 feet
- Redeemer-St. John's Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K800 feet
- Smart Start Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K1,100 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Tom McDonald Triangle840 feet
- McKinley Park940 feet
- Dan Ross Playground1,090 feet
Supermarkets
- Met Foodmarkets Supermarket0.4 miles
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there are two 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:
- Fort Hamilton Parkway & 81st Street 140 feet
- 7th Avenue & Fort Hamilton Parkway at 80th Street 270 feet
- Fort Hamilton Parkway & Gowanus Expressway 280 feet
- 7th Avenue & 82nd Street 280 feet
- 7th Avenue & 79th Street 550 feet
- 7th Avenue & 83rd Street 560 feet
- Fort Hamilton Parkway & Gowanus Expressway 570 feet
- 83rd Street & Dyker Place 750 feet
See every intersection along 7th Avenue or 81st Street.