Mill Avenue & East 59th Place

Mill Avenue and East 59th Place meet at a three-way junction in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Lindower Park is 310 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 56 Dr/Strickland Av, is 1,210 feet away for the B100 and BM1, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1960, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Mill Avenue & East 59th Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 56 Dr/Strickland Av, 1,210 feet away, for the B100 and BM1.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 56 Dr/Strickland Av B100, BM1
    1,210 feet
    B100 BM1

Next buses at this stop

  1. B100 …
  2. BM1 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6201 Avenue U Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    1.6 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 700 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 in 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in April 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Mill Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 swimming pool

Schools and child care

  1. Basin Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lindower Park
    310 feet
  2. Lindower Park Playground
    710 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Lindower Park Mini Pool Swimming pool
    840 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Mill Basin Plaza Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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