Forbell Street & McKinley Avenue

Forbell Street and McKinley Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 16 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Cypress Hills Ascend Charter School is 900 feet away. The nearest subway, 80 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
80 St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
660 feet
Liberty Av/Forbell St · Q8
Within a walk
14 places
9 religious buildings, 1 garden and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Forbell Street & McKinley Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 80 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 80 St A
    0.3 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Grant Av A
    0.4 miles
    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, 660 feet away, for the Q8.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 81-02 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 9325 Rockaway Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.1 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 16 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,906th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 5 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
32 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 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 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and December 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Forbell Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Forbell Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of McKinley Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of McKinley Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Cypress Hills Ascend Charter School
    900 feet
  2. Adl Institute Trade or language school
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. BACDYS Garden (Bangladeshi American Development and Youth Services) Garden
    1,150 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Liberty Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Liberty Avenue War Memorial Monument or memorial
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Redeeming Grace Baptist Church House of worship
    220 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  2. Golden Farms Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and ten 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Forbell Street or McKinley Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.