Alabama Avenue & Wortman Avenue

Alabama Avenue and Wortman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Pennsylvania Avenue-Wortman Avenue Community Center is 1,160 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cozine Av/Alabama Av, is 660 feet away for the B6, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them playgrounds, and seven places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Wortman Avenue.

Safety record
12 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
660 feet
Cozine Av/Alabama Av · B6
Within a walk
5 places
2 playgrounds, 1 community center and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Alabama Avenue & Wortman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cozine Av/Alabama Av, 660 feet away, for the B6.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cozine Av/Alabama Av B6
    660 feet
    B6

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Wortman Avenue.

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sheffield Ave & Linden Blvd 12 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 12113 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 80 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1995.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Kentucky coffeetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Alabama Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO DEPT OF SANITATION
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

West side of Alabama Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

North side of Wortman Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Wortman Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Breukelen Ballfields Park
    590 feet
  2. Breukelen Playground
    920 feet
  3. Ethan Allen Playground
    1,090 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Pennsylvania Avenue-Wortman Avenue Community Center
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, 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 Alabama Avenue or Wortman Avenue.

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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.