Avenue R & Burnett Street

Avenue R and Burnett Street meet at a four-way crossing in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 936 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Marine Park is 840 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue R/Burnett St, is 40 feet away for the B2, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and three places to eat.

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Avenue R & Burnett Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue R/Burnett St, 40 feet away, for the B2.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue R/Burnett St B2
    40 feet
    B2

Next buses at this stop

  1. B2 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2791 Nostrand Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2021.

In 2025, 936 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 812th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 534 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on Avenue R536339
Westbound on Avenue R400195
Total936534

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
46
Police precinct
61 and 63 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach
Elevation
12 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 1925 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and December 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Avenue R

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Burnett Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marine Park
    840 feet
  2. PS 278 Playground
    890 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Madison Jewish Center House of worship
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.