Avenue U & Royce Street
Avenue U and Royce Street meet at a four-way crossing in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named John J. McCarthy Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Paerdegat Basin Park is 350 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue U/E 71 St, is 1,020 feet away for the B3, and four 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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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Avenue U/E 71 St, 1,020 feet away, for the B3.
- 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Avenue U/E 71 St B31,020 feetB3
Next buses at this stop
- B3 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.
- 6201 Avenue U Gas station0.7 miles
- 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers1.6 miles
- 2143 Flatbush Avenue Fast charging for electric cars1.6 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.
- 1 person injured
- 0 people killed
The most recent crash recorded here was in November 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
This corner is also named John J. McCarthy Way, a co-naming enacted on August 3, 2016 (Local Law 92 of 2016).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
Homes
About 500 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 1950 and 1965.
Trees
NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on John J. McCarthy Way.
Parks and places within a walk
How places are listedThree public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 1 field
- 1 nature area
- 1 park
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Paerdegat Basin Park Nature area350 feet
- Barone Triangle940 feet
- McGuire Fields Field1,140 feet
Supermarkets
- Key Food Supermarket0.5 miles
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 bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
- A signal or safety change
- A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
- A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
Nearby corners
The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:
- Avenue U & East 74th Street 270 feet
- Avenue U & East 73rd Street 530 feet
- Avenue T & Royce Street 780 feet
- Avenue V & Royce Street 780 feet
- Avenue U & East 72nd Street 790 feet
- Avenue U & Veterans Avenue 840 feet
- Avenue T & East 74th Street 890 feet
- Avenue V & East 74th Street 1,050 feet
See every intersection along Avenue U or Royce Street.