Park Avenue & North Oxford Street

Park Avenue and North Oxford Street meet at a three-way junction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 52 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 3,594 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Commodore Barry Park is 570 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Park Av/North Portland Av, is 400 feet away for the B62, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them schools, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
33 hurt
52 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
400 feet
Park Av/North Portland Av · B62
Within a walk
13 places
4 schools, 2 playgrounds and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & North Oxford Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Park Av/North Portland Av, 400 feet away, for the B62.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Av/North Portland Av B62
    400 feet
    B62

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 168 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 152 Ashland Place Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 52 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,594 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 240th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2,585 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,400 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 in 1939.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2015 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of North Oxford Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of North Oxford Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Commodore Barry Park.

  1. Commodore John Barry Stele, 1996
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 swimming pools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts School
    370 feet
  2. Greene Hill School
    960 feet
  3. Community Roots Charter School
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 067 Charles A. Dorsey School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Oxport Playground
    520 feet
  2. Commodore Barry Park
    570 feet
  3. Commodore Barry Park Playground
    1,230 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 31 Ambulance station
    720 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Garden Apartments (Navy Yard) Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sacred Heart Church House of worship
    960 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 105 North Portland Avenue Older adult center
    990 feet
  2. Commodore Barry Park Wading Pool Swimming pool
    1,040 feet
  3. Commodore Barry Pool Swimming pool
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Gold Organic Farm Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along North Oxford Street or Park Avenue.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.