Avenue Y & East 70th Street
Avenue Y and East 70th Street meet at a three-way junction in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, at the edge of McGuire Fields. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Within a five-minute walk is one public place. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1970 and 1975, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBy car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.
- 6201 Avenue U Gas station1 mile
- 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers2 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.
The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2017.
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; the corner is on the edge of the McGuire Fields area
- Elevation
- 6 feet above sea level
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is one-way
Homes
About 200 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 1970 and 1975.
Trees
NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.
Parks and places within a walk
How places are listedOne public place is within a five-minute walk.
- 1 field
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- McGuire Fields Field100 feet
Not on record for this corner:
- A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
- A bus stop 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 Y & East 71st Street 260 feet
- Avenue Y & East 69th Street 280 feet
- Avenue Y & East 72nd Street 520 feet
- Avenue X & East 70th Street 570 feet
- Avenue Y & East 73rd Street 780 feet
- Avenue X & East 71st Street 830 feet
- Avenue X & East 69th Street 850 feet
- Avenue Y & Bergen Avenue 1,040 feet
See every intersection along Avenue Y or East 70th Street.