North Portland Avenue & North Oxford Walk

North Portland Avenue and North Oxford Walk meet at a three-way junction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Whitman development. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fort Greene Park is 310 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Myrtle Av/North Portland Av, is 350 feet away for the B54, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, three of them park features, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
350 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 Oxford Walk Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Myrtle Av/North Portland Av, 350 feet away, for the B54.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 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
    640 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

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

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
46 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 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 1942.

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 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

Seven buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and built between 1874 and 1908.

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
    930 feet
  2. P.S. 067 Charles A. Dorsey School
    930 feet
  3. Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Greene Park
    310 feet
  2. Fort Greene Crypt in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    660 feet
  3. Fort Greene Visitors Center in Fort Greene Park Park feature · landmark
    760 feet
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  1. Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    840 feet
  2. Fort Greene Playground
    1,100 feet
  3. Commodore Barry Park
    1,140 feet
  4. Oxport Playground
    1,140 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 31 Ambulance station
    650 feet
  2. The Phoenix Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Walt Whitman Library
    800 feet
  2. Brooklyn Garden Apartments (Navy Yard) Listed historic place
    1,000 feet
  3. Feuchtwanger Stable Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 105 North Portland Avenue Older adult center
    260 feet
  2. Community center at Whitman Community center
    450 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #3 Satellite Police station
    570 feet
  2. Engine 210 Fire station
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,200 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along North Oxford 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.