Avenue W & East 73rd Street
Avenue W and East 73rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Patrick Solomita Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. McGuire Fields is 900 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue U/E 71 St, is 0.4 miles away for the B3, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1955 and 1965, almost all in houses of one or two.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Avenue U/E 71 St, 0.4 miles away, for the B3.
- 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Avenue U/E 71 St B30.4 milesB3
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, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.
- 6201 Avenue U Gas station0.9 miles
- 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers1.8 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.
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
- 8 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Patrick Solomita Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is one-way
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 1955 and 1965.
Trees
NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Patrick Solomita Way.
Parks and places within a walk
How places are listedTwo public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 1 field
- 1 playground
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- McGuire Fields Field900 feet
- McGuire Fields Tot Lot Playground1,300 feet
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 corners within a three-minute walk:
- Avenue W & East 74th Street 260 feet
- Avenue W & East 72nd Street 260 feet
- Avenue W & East 71st Street 520 feet
- Avenue W & Royce Street 530 feet
- Avenue V & East 73rd Street 780 feet
- Avenue W & East 70th Street 780 feet
- Avenue X & East 73rd Street 780 feet
- Avenue W & Bergen Avenue 820 feet
See every intersection along Avenue W or East 73rd Street.