North Portland Avenue & North Elliott Walk

North Portland Avenue and North Elliott Walk meet at a four-way crossing in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Whitman development. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Police Service Area #3 Satellite is 500 feet away. The nearest subway, DeKalb Av, is about ten minutes on foot, for the B, Q and R. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, three of them park features, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
DeKalb Av
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · B, Q, R
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Myrtle Av/North Portland Av · B54
Within a walk
19 places
3 park features, 3 schools and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
North Portland Avenue & North Elliott Walk Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is DeKalb Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. DeKalb Av B, Q, R
    0.5 miles
    B Q R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. R …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. R …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Masstransiscope” (1980) by Bill Brand and “DeKalb Improvisation” (2005) by Stephen Johnson at the DeKalb Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Myrtle Av/North Portland Av, 270 feet away, for the B54.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Myrtle Av/North Portland Av B54 · Shelter
    270 feet
    B54
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Myrtle Ave & St Edwards St 56 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 152 Ashland Place Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene
Elevation
47 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,600 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 1939 and 1957.

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

Since 2014 at least 146 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

Ten buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1874 and 1877.

  1. Prison Ship Martyrs Monument (Fort Greene Park) Designated landmark
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 park features
  • 3 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Community Roots Charter School
    980 feet
  2. P.S. 067 Charles A. Dorsey School
    980 feet
  3. Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Greene Park
    220 feet
  2. Fort Greene Crypt in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    580 feet
  3. Fort Greene Visitors Center in Fort Greene Park Park feature · landmark
    680 feet
Show all 7
  1. Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    760 feet
  2. Fort Greene Playground
    1,010 feet
  3. Commodore Barry Park
    1,220 feet
  4. Oxport Playground
    1,220 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 31 Ambulance station
    730 feet
  2. The Phoenix Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Walt Whitman Library
    850 feet
  2. Brooklyn Garden Apartments (Navy Yard) Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
  3. Feuchtwanger Stable Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 105 North Portland Avenue Older adult center
    340 feet
  2. Community center at Whitman Community center
    530 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #3 Satellite Police station
    500 feet
  2. Engine 210 Fire station
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    830 feet
  2. NYC Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,120 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along North Elliott Walk or North Portland Avenue.

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.