Blake Avenue & Osborn Street

Blake Avenue and Osborn Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Brownsville development. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Risen Christ Lutheran Church is 710 feet away, and Betsy Head Park is 1,080 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
Mother Gaston Blvd/Blake Av · B14
Within a walk
17 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Blake Avenue & Osborn Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Junius St 3
    0.4 miles
    3
  2. Sutter Av L
    0.5 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Paroles Vagabondes/Wisdom Along the Way” (2017) by Béatrice Lebreton at the Rockaway Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Mother Gaston Blvd/Blake Av, 560 feet away, for the B14.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mother Gaston Blvd/Blake Av B14 · Shelter
    560 feet
    B14
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Blake Avenue.

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rockaway Ave & Blake Ave 16 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    1,320 feet
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, December 2015

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1954 and 1975.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Brownsville development.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Thirteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Frederick Douglass Academy VII High School
    1,200 feet
  2. Legacy Leadership High School
    1,200 feet
  3. Mott Hall Bridges Academy School
    1,210 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S./I.S. 323 School
    1,210 feet
  2. Rize & Shine Childcare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. P.S. 125 Playground
    400 feet
  2. Dr. Green Playground
    540 feet
  3. Betsy Head Park
    1,080 feet
Show all 5
  1. ISO Student Farm Garden
    1,150 feet
  2. Carter G. Woodson Children's Park
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stone Avenue Library
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Risen Christ Lutheran Church House of worship
    710 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 528 Mother Gaston Boulevard Older adult center
    530 feet
  2. Van Dyke Community Center
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Blake Avenue or Osborn Street.

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