Dumont Avenue & Osborn Street

Dumont Avenue and Osborn Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Tilden development. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 125 Playground is 850 feet away, and Van Dyke Playground is 850 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, six of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
1,030 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
Rockaway Av/Dumont Av · B60
Within a walk
18 places
6 religious buildings, 4 playgrounds and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dumont Avenue & Osborn Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 1,030 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av 3
    1,030 feet
    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
    0.3 miles
    3
  2. Livonia 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 Rockaway Av/Dumont Av, 590 feet away, for the B60.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Dumont Av B60
    590 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 25 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rockaway Ave & Blake Ave 16 docks in all
    1,050 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, October 2018

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
31 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 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 Tilden development.

Since 2014 at least 210 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Seventeen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Greenspire' littleleaf linden.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Jacobean Revival, and built between 1913 and 1914.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 parks
  • 1 community center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Height Educational Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    900 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. P.S. 125 Playground
    850 feet
  2. Van Dyke Playground
    850 feet
  3. Living Laboratory Community Garden
    1,000 feet
Show all 7
  1. Betsy Head Park
    1,070 feet
  2. Dr. Green Playground
    1,110 feet
  3. Imagination Playground at Betsy Head Playground
    1,120 feet
  4. Nehemiah Park
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stone Avenue Library Landmark
    680 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Baptist Church Brownsville House of worship
    1,030 feet
  2. Risen Christ Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,070 feet
  3. Cornerstone Pentecostal Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 528 Mother Gaston Boulevard Older adult center
    1,100 feet
  2. Tilden Community Center
    1,120 feet
  3. Older adult center at 630 Mother Gaston Boulevard Older adult center
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dumont Avenue or Osborn Street.

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