83rd Street & 16th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 83rd Street and 16th Avenue is in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 250 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 204 Vince Lombardi is 1,010 feet away. The nearest subway, 79 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the D. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them schools, and four places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
79 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
86 St/16 Av · B1
Within a walk
5 places
2 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
83rd Street & 16th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 79 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 79 St 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. 18 Av D
    0.4 miles
    D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “A Continuous Thread” (2012) by Susanna Starr at the 79 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 86 St/16 Av, 860 feet away, for the B1.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 86 St/16 Av B1
    860 feet
    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 Bay 8th Street & Belt Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1601 86th Street Gas station
    770 feet
  2. 1763 86th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 250 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,546th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 119 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
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bensonhurst
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 16th Avenue

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

West side of 16th Avenue

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

North side of 83rd Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 83rd Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 204 Vince Lombardi School
    1,010 feet
  2. District 20 Pre-K Center at 21 Bay 11th Street Pre-K center
    1,110 feet
  3. New Utrecht High School
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New Utrecht Reformed Church Complex (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    500 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Jmart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,280 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four 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 nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 16th Avenue or 83rd 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.