Forbell Street & 101st Avenue

Forbell Street and 101st Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Mizanur Rahman Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. BACDYS Garden (Bangladeshi American Development and Youth Services) is 510 feet away. The nearest subway, 80 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
80 St
1,110 feet · 4 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Liberty Av/Forbell St · Q8
Within a walk
15 places
10 religious buildings, 1 garden and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Forbell Street & 101st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 80 St, 1,110 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. 80 St A
    1,110 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. A …
Outbound
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. Grant Av A
    1,300 feet
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “SOAR” (2016) by Mia Pearlman at the 80 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Liberty Av/Forbell St, 50 feet away, for the Q8.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av/Forbell St Q8
    50 feet
    Q8

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 45 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Cross Bay Boulevard, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 519 Autumn Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 August 2021.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-City Line
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Mizanur Rahman Way, a co-naming enacted on June 3, 2003 (Local Law 34 of 2003).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 1910 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Mizanur Rahman Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of 101st Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Adl Institute Trade or language school
    560 feet
  2. P.S. 214 Michael Friedsam School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. BACDYS Garden (Bangladeshi American Development and Youth Services) Garden
    510 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Liberty Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Liberty Avenue War Memorial Monument or memorial
    400 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Redeeming Grace Baptist Church House of worship
    870 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    460 feet
  2. Golden Farms Supermarket
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 18 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 of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 101st Avenue or Forbell Street.

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