Avenue Y & East 72nd Street

Avenue Y and East 72nd Street meet at a three-way junction in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. McGuire Fields is 100 feet away. Within a five-minute walk is one public place. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1970 and 1975, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

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By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

No 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 March 2016.

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
6 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 300 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 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 field

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McGuire Fields Field
    100 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.