Dahill Road & Clara Street

Dahill Road and Clara Street meet at a three-way junction in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 141 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Albemarle Playground is 580 feet away, and Mesivta Meor Hatorah 2 is 1,250 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them schools, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
570 feet · 2 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
550 feet
12 Av/Dahill Rd · B16
Within a walk
10 places
4 schools, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dahill Road & Clara Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 570 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av F, G
    570 feet
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 12 Av/Dahill Rd, 550 feet away, for the B16.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 12 Av/Dahill Rd B16
    550 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 48 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Albemarle Rd & McDonald Ave 20 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at 11th Avenue & 18th Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 20 Caton Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5115 15th Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2023.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 141 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,701st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 67 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
39
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2018 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Clara Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Clara Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Dahill Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 230 Doris L. Cohen School
    580 feet
  2. Mesivta Meor Hatorah 2 School
    1,250 feet
  3. Kesser Malka School
    1,270 feet
Show all 4
  1. United Talmudical Academy-Boro Park School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Albemarle Playground
    580 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Kensington Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Congregation Chevra Linath Hazedeck Listed historic place
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kensington Post Office Listed historic place
    460 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    560 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. KRM Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,290 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 20 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Clara Street or Dahill Road.

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