Avenue U & East 66th Street

Avenue U and East 66th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 446 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 236 Mill Basin is 860 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue U/E 66 St, is 50 feet away for the B3 and B100, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, six of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Avenue U/E 66 St · B3, B100
Within a walk
14 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue U & East 66th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue U/E 66 St, 50 feet away, for the B3 and B100.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/E 66 St B3, B100
    50 feet
    B3 B100

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …
  2. B100 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6201 Avenue U Gas station
    1,080 feet
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 446 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,255th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 267 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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 four 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue U

  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-8PM

East side of East 66th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Aleph Daycare 1 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    310 feet
  2. Talmud Torah of Crown Heights School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
  3. Birch Family Services - Mill Basin School
    710 feet
Show all 6
  1. Crown Heights Yeshivah School
    850 feet
  2. P.S. 236 Mill Basin School
    860 feet
  3. St Bernard Catholic Academy School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hickman Playground
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Flatbush Park Jewish Center House of worship
    650 feet
  2. Temple Sholom of Flatbush House of worship
    690 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    460 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Mill Basin Plaza Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue U or East 66th Street.

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