John Warren Avenue & Wainwright Drive

John Warren Avenue and Wainwright Drive meet at a four-way crossing in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Dyker Beach Park is 880 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Poly Pl/7 Av, is 1,000 feet away for the B8, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1953, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,000 feet
Poly Pl/7 Av · B8
Within a walk
2 places
1 day care or pre-K site and 1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
John Warren Avenue & Wainwright Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Poly Pl/7 Av, 1,000 feet away, for the B8.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Poly Pl/7 Av B8
    1,000 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 101 St & Fort Hamilton Pkwy 12 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway at Gowanus Expressway & John Warren Avenue, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 579 92nd Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 221 Washington Drive Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    420 feet
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11209
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
50
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Hamilton
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 500 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 in 1953.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Child Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dyker Beach Park
    880 feet

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 parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along John Warren Avenue or Wainwright Drive.

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