Avenue M & Georgetown Lane

Avenue M and Georgetown Lane meet at a three-way junction in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Hickman Playground is 1,110 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ralph Av/Avenue M, is 1,000 feet away for the B47, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them schools, and two places to eat. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1965 and 2002, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Avenue M & Georgetown Lane Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Avenue M, 1,000 feet away, for the B47.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Avenue M B47
    1,000 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2317 Ralph Avenue Gas station
    970 feet
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2017.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 800 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 1965 and 2002.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 078 Roy H. Mann School
    1,190 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Bergen Beach School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hickman Playground
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Beit Hillel of Flatlands House of worship
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    990 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,190 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,050 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,280 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Georgetowne Shopping Center Shopping center
    920 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • 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:

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