East 69th Street & Veterans Avenue
East 69th Street and Veterans Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Kaitlyn Bernhardt Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. St Bernard Catholic Academy is 150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Veterans Av/E 69 St, is 190 feet away for the B41, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them schools, and six places to eat.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Veterans Av/E 69 St, 190 feet away, for the B41.
- 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Veterans Av/E 69 St B41190 feetB41
Next buses at this stop
- B41 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.
- 6201 Avenue U Gas station0.5 miles
- 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers1.3 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.
The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2018.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11234
- Community board
- Brooklyn Community Board 18
- City Council district
- 46
- Police precinct
- 63
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach
- Elevation
- 9 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Kaitlyn Bernhardt Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
Homes
About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1960 and 1975.
Trees
NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Kaitlyn Bernhardt Way.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 12 signs on these blocks
- 5 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.
East side of East 69th Street
- Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
- No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
- No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
West side of East 69th Street
- No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
South side of Veterans Avenue
- No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
Schools, parks and places within a walk
How places are listedTwelve public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 5 schools
- 2 playgrounds
- 2 religious buildings
- 1 day care or pre-K site
- 1 older adult center
- 1 park
Schools and child care
- St Bernard Catholic Academy School150 feet
- Birch Family Services - Mill Basin School550 feet
- Aleph Daycare 1 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K1,030 feet
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- J.H.S. 078 Roy H. Mann School1,040 feet
- Success Academy Charter School - Bergen Beach School1,040 feet
- P.S. 312 Bergen Beach School1,070 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Hickman Playground440 feet
- Barone Triangle700 feet
- Bergen Beach Playground1,050 feet
Houses of worship
- Temple Sholom of Flatbush House of worship430 feet
Community centers and public services
- Older adult center at 2075 East 68th Street Older adult center550 feet
Supermarkets
- Key Food Supermarket0.3 miles
Pharmacies
- CVS Pharmacy0.5 miles
Shopping centers
- Georgetowne Shopping Center Shopping center0.5 miles
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat.
Not on record for this corner:
- A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
- A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
- A signal or safety change
- A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
Nearby corners
The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:
- Avenue T & East 69th Street 190 feet
- Avenue T & East 68th Street 340 feet
- East 70th Street & Veterans Avenue 340 feet
- Avenue T & Veterans Avenue 450 feet
- Avenue T & East 70th Street 450 feet
- Avenue U & East 69th Street 530 feet
- Avenue T & East 67th Street 600 feet
- Veterans Avenue & East 67th Street 660 feet
See every intersection along East 69th Street or Veterans Avenue.