Belmont Avenue & New Jersey Avenue

Belmont Avenue and New Jersey Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Grace Playground is 40 feet away, and New Jersey Avenue Community Garden is 1,170 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Belmont Av · B20, B83
Within a walk
22 places
11 religious buildings, 6 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Belmont Avenue & New Jersey Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Van Siclen Av C
    0.3 miles
    C
  2. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Belmont Av, 350 feet away, for the B20 and B83.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Belmont Av B20, B83
    350 feet
    B20 B83

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pennsylvania Ave & Pitkin Ave 11 docks in all
    760 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
34 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 11 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and September 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Belmont Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of New Jersey Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of New Jersey Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Achievement First Apollo Middle Charter School
    640 feet
  2. Achievement First East Brooklyn High School
    640 feet
  3. Bard High School Early College Brooklyn School
    640 feet
Show all 7
  1. J.H.S. 292 Margaret S. Douglas School
    640 feet
  2. P.S. 149 Danny Kaye School
    990 feet
  3. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    1,260 feet
  4. Canarsie Children First Academy School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grace Playground
    40 feet
  2. Artsy Bloom Community Garden
    1,030 feet
  3. New Jersey Avenue Community Garden
    1,170 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 39 Ambulance station
    370 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    920 feet
  2. St John Cantius RC Church House of worship
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    610 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    890 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Belmont Avenue or New Jersey Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.