7th Avenue & 85th Street

The four-way crossing of 7th Avenue and 85th Street is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, and is also named Hank Vogt Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dyker Beach Park is 410 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 86 St/7 Av, is 340 feet away for the B1, X28 and X38, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and six places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
86 St/7 Av · B1, X28, X38
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 dog run and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
7th Avenue & 85th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 86 St/7 Av, 340 feet away, for the B1, X28 and X38.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 86 St/7 Av B1, X28, X38
    340 feet
    B1 X28 X38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …
  2. X28 …
  3. X38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 7th Avenue and 85th Street.

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy & 85 St 14 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8521 7th Avenue Gas station
    310 feet
  2. 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 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
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11228
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
47
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Dyker Heights
Elevation
77 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Hank Vogt Way, a co-naming enacted on December 28, 2009 (Local Law 92 of 2009).

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Hank Vogt Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 7th Avenue

  • Ambulances only 2 signs AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 7th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of 85th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 85th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated four lampposts.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. School of Technology, Arts, and Research School
    530 feet
  2. Redeemer-St. John's Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  3. Smart Start Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dyker Beach Park
    410 feet
  2. Dog Run in Dyker Beach Park Dog run
    620 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 7th Avenue or 85th Street.

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