McDonald Avenue & Vanderbilt Street

McDonald Avenue and Vanderbilt Street meet at a three-way junction in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Brooklyn, at the edge of Green-Wood Cemetery. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 7,720 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Captain John McKenna, IV Park is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, Fort Hamilton Pkwy, is about nine minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them parks.

Safety record
4 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fort Hamilton Pkwy
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
McDonald Av/Vanderbilt St · B67, B69
Within a walk
6 places
2 parks, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
McDonald Avenue & Vanderbilt Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fort Hamilton Pkwy, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy F, G
    0.4 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Church Av F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is McDonald Av/Vanderbilt St, 120 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. McDonald Av/Vanderbilt St B67, B69
    120 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. McDonald Ave & Vanderbilt St 21 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at 11th Avenue & 18th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 20 Caton Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 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, 7,720 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 17th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 2,821 more were issued.

Red-light camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on McDonald Avenue5,8262,097
Southbound on McDonald Avenue1,894724
Total7,7202,821

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
38 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
72
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Windsor Terrace-South Slope; the corner is on the edge of the Green-Wood Cemetery area
Elevation
94 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2018 and September 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of McDonald Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Vanderbilt Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. One World Project - Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    680 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Captain John McKenna, IV Park
    1,030 feet
  2. Seeley Park
    1,100 feet
  3. Seeley Park Playground
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along McDonald Avenue or Vanderbilt Street.

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