Livonia Avenue & Watkins Street

Livonia Avenue and Watkins Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Tilden development. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Tilden Community Center is 280 feet away, and Kids-Centric, Inc Pal World Creative is 450 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, six of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
830 feet · 3 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
820 feet
Riverdale Av/Mother Gaston Blvd · B99
Within a walk
22 places
6 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Livonia Avenue & Watkins Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 830 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av 3
    830 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
    850 feet
    3
  2. Livonia Av L
    0.3 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 Riverdale Av/Mother Gaston Blvd, 820 feet away, for the B99.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverdale Av/Mother Gaston Blvd B99
    820 feet
    B99

Next buses at this stop

  1. B99 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Livonia Ave & Mother Gaston Blvd 18 docks in all
    260 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 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
    0.8 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 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

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
29 feet above sea level

The streets

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

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 1976.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Tilden development.

Since 2014 at least 246 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 88 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and August 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Livonia Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Watkins Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Watkins Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

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

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.A.L./W.O.C.E. Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    370 feet
  2. Kids-Centric, Inc Pal World Creative School
    450 feet
  3. The Salvation Army Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    680 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Friends of Crown Height Educational Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Nehemiah Park
    90 feet
  2. Nehemiah Park Playground
    450 feet
  3. Van Dyke Playground
    830 feet
Show all 7
  1. Newport Playground
    880 feet
  2. Floyd Patterson Ballfields Park
    890 feet
  3. Livonia Park
    1,110 feet
  4. Powell Street Garden
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stone Avenue Library Landmark
    850 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Mercy Church House of worship
    420 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Brownsville House of worship
    990 feet
  3. Cornerstone Pentecostal Church House of worship
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Little Rock Baptist Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Tilden Community Center
    280 feet
  2. Older adult center at 630 Mother Gaston Boulevard Older adult center
    280 feet
  3. Older adult center at 230 Riverdale Avenue Older adult center
    1,250 feet

Fire and police

  1. Van Dyke I Police station
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    630 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 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 six places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Livonia Avenue or Watkins Street.

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