Park Avenue & Cumberland Walk

Park Avenue and Cumberland 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. Sacred Heart Church is 730 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Park Av/Carlton Av, is 210 feet away for the B62, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them schools, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
Park Av/Carlton Av · B62
Within a walk
16 places
6 schools, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & Cumberland Walk Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Park Av/Carlton Av, 210 feet away, for the B62.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Av/Carlton Av B62
    210 feet
    B62

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Park Avenue.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Carlton Ave & Park Ave 23 docks in all
    240 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 168 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 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 January 2016.

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
38 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 30 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 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 1930 and 1939.

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

Since 2014 at least 5 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Greene Hill School
    760 feet
  2. Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts School
    800 feet
  3. Fort Greene Preparatory Academy School
    1,180 feet
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  1. P.S. 046 Edward C. Blum School
    1,180 feet
  2. Community Roots Charter School
    1,270 feet
  3. P.S. 067 Charles A. Dorsey School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Oxport Playground
    940 feet
  2. Commodore Barry Park
    1,000 feet
  3. Fort Greene Park
    1,160 feet
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  1. Oracle Playground
    1,210 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 31 Ambulance station
    910 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Garden Apartments (Navy Yard) Listed historic place
    880 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sacred Heart Church House of worship
    730 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Whitman Community center
    970 feet
  2. Older adult center at 105 North Portland Avenue Older adult center
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  2. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Gold Organic Farm Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Cumberland Walk or Park Avenue.

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