Benson Avenue & Bay 43rd Street

Benson Avenue and Bay 43rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Lafayette Playground is 50 feet away, and Kingsborough Early College School is 430 feet away. The nearest subway, 25 Av, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, five of them schools, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
25 Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
960 feet
86 St/Stillwell Av · B1, B3, B4
Within a walk
13 places
5 schools, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Benson Avenue & Bay 43rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 25 Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 25 Av D
    0.3 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave U N
    0.4 miles
    N
  2. Bay 50 St D
    0.5 miles
    D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Rediscovery” (2012) by Amy Cheng at the 25 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 86 St/Stillwell Av, 960 feet away, for the B1, B3 and B4.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 86 St/Stillwell Av B1, B3, B4 · Shelter
    960 feet
    B1 B3 B4
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …
  2. B3 …
  3. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2616 86th Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 8949 Bay Parkway Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 13
City Council district
43 and 47 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
60
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (South)
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 1945 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bay 43rd Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Bay 43rd Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Benson Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Benson Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. High School of Sports Management School
    430 feet
  2. International High School at Lafayette School
    430 feet
  3. Kingsborough Early College School
    430 feet
Show all 6
  1. Leaders High School
    430 feet
  2. Life Academy High School for Business and Technology School
    430 feet
  3. I P Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lafayette Playground
    50 feet
  2. Police Officer John G. Scarangella Park
    520 feet
  3. Scarangella Park Playground
    600 feet
Show all 4
  1. Meucci Triangle
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulmer Park Library
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. V&W Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bay 43rd Street or Benson Avenue.

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