Avenue T & East 68th Street

Avenue T and East 68th Street meet at a six-way junction in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Hickman Playground is 100 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Veterans Av/Avenue T, is 140 feet away for the B41, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them schools, and eight places to eat. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
4 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Veterans Av/Avenue T · B41
Within a walk
12 places
5 schools, 2 playgrounds and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue T & East 68th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Veterans Av/Avenue T, 140 feet away, for the B41.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Veterans Av/Avenue T B41
    140 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6201 Avenue U Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2023

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
9 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 68th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of East 68th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

South side of Veterans Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. St Bernard Catholic Academy School
    440 feet
  2. J.H.S. 078 Roy H. Mann School
    700 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Bergen Beach School
    700 feet
Show all 6
  1. Birch Family Services - Mill Basin School
    730 feet
  2. Aleph Daycare 1 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
  3. P.S. 312 Bergen Beach School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hickman Playground
    100 feet
  2. Barone Triangle
    1,040 feet
  3. Bergen Beach Playground
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Sholom of Flatbush House of worship
    610 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 2075 East 68th Street Older adult center
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,300 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Georgetowne Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and one food store.

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 and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue T, East 68th Street or Veterans Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.