81st Street & 21st Avenue

The four-way crossing of 81st Street and 21st Avenue is in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Studio Secondary School is 840 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Pkwy, is about eight minutes on foot, for the D. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and three places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1939, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Pkwy
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
970 feet
Bay Pkwy/80 St · B82
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 3 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
81st Street & 21st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Pkwy, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Pkwy D
    0.4 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 20 Av D
    0.4 miles
    D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Tree of Life” (2012) by Xin Song at the Bay Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Pkwy/80 St, 970 feet away, for the B82.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Pkwy/80 St B82
    970 feet
    B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bensonhurst
Elevation
24 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 1939.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 47 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 21st Avenue

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

North side of 21st Avenue

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

South side of 21st Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 21st Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 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

West side of 81st Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Studio Secondary School
    840 feet
  2. P.S. 128 Bensonhurst School
    840 feet
  3. Aspiring Minds BP Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet
Show all 6
  1. Yeshiva Ohel Moshe School
    990 feet
  2. Sinai Academic Center School
    1,090 feet
  3. Little Berries II Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 20th Ave Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and six 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 21st Avenue or 81st Street.

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