Avenue N & East 71st Street

Avenue N and East 71st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Bergen Beach Playground is 520 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 68 St/Avenue N, is 1,030 feet away for the B41, B46 and B47, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them schools. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1970 and 2003, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,030 feet
E 68 St/Avenue N · B41, B46, B47
Within a walk
6 places
3 schools, 2 playgrounds and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue N & East 71st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 68 St/Avenue N, 1,030 feet away, for the B41, B46 and B47.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 68 St/Avenue N B41, B46, B47
    1,030 feet
    B41 B46 B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …
  2. B46 …
  3. B47 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 September 2019.

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
10 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1970 and 2003.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Not Green Leaf' Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and February 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Avenue N

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of East 71st Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 nature area

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 312 Bergen Beach School
    760 feet
  2. J.H.S. 078 Roy H. Mann School
    1,170 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Bergen Beach School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bergen Beach Playground
    520 feet
  2. Hickman Playground
    1,100 feet
  3. Paerdegat Basin Park Nature area
    1,200 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Georgetowne Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue N or East 71st 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, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.