81st Street & 20th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 81st Street and 20th Avenue is in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 822 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Brooklyn Studio Secondary School is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, 20 Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the D. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them schools, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
20 Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
86 St/20 Av · B1
Within a walk
6 places
3 schools, 2 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
81st Street & 20th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 20 Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. 20 Av D
    0.3 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Southbound
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 18 Av D
    0.5 miles
    D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Kaleidoscope” (2012) by Odili Donald Odita at the 20 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 86 St/20 Av, 0.3 miles away, for the B1.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 86 St/20 Av B1
    0.3 miles
    B1

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1626 Stillwell Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1763 86th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.6 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.

  • 9 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 February 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 822 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 884th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 465 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
38 and 43 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bensonhurst
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2018 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 20th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 20th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of 81st Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 81st Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Daisy's Fun House II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    740 feet
  2. Sinai Academic Center School
    890 feet
  3. Brooklyn Studio Secondary School
    1,260 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 128 Bensonhurst School
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 20th Ave Supermarket Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Jmart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 20th Avenue or 81st Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.