Avenue T & Ford Street

Avenue T and Ford Street meet at a four-way crossing in Madison, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Marine Park is 800 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Gerritsen Av/Avenue T, is 530 feet away for the B31, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and three places to eat.

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Avenue T & Ford Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gerritsen Av/Avenue T, 530 feet away, for the B31.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gerritsen Av/Avenue T B31
    530 feet
    B31

Next buses at this stop

  1. B31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3095 Avenue U Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.2 miles

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
46
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Madison
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, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 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 July 2016 and March 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue T

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue T

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Big Dreams Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    870 feet
  2. Good Shepherd Catholic Academy School
    990 feet
  3. A2z Happyland Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marine Park
    800 feet

Health care

  1. Caring Hospice Services of New York Nursing home or hospice
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Good Shepherd Church House of worship
    1,100 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 321 Fire station
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 of the 9 corners 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.