Park Avenue & Skillman Street

Park Avenue and Skillman Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bnos Square of Williamsburg 2 is 260 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bedford Av/Park Av, is 310 feet away for the B44, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places, 11 of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Bedford Av/Park Av · B44
Within a walk
31 places
11 day care or pre-K sites, 10 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & Skillman Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Park Av, 310 feet away, for the B44.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Park Av B44
    310 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Franklin Ave & Myrtle Ave 27 docks in all
    1,010 feet

By car

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

  1. 75 Classon Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 28-17 42nd Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
33
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2002 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 105 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2015 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Skillman Street

  • Other rule 12 signs PARKING PERMITTED MONDAY & THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM ONLY

West side of Skillman Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

  • 11 day care or pre-K sites
  • 10 schools
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bnos Square of Williamsburg 2 School
    260 feet
  2. Ach Tov V'Chesed School · school-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    420 feet
  3. Hychel Hatorah School
    530 feet
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  1. Tickle Toes Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    640 feet
  2. Bnos Spinka Boys School
    700 feet
  3. Talmud Torah Toshbar School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    780 feet
  4. Yeshiva Nachlas Tzvi D'Krula Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  5. Jolly Baby Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    840 feet
  6. Talmud Torah Tashbar School
    1,010 feet
  7. Yeshiva of Kasho School
    1,100 feet
  8. P.S./I.S. 157 the Benjamin Franklin Health & Science Academy School
    1,100 feet
  9. Gan Bnos Yisroel Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,160 feet
  10. School Based Child Care School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,160 feet
  11. Yeshiva Bnos Israel School
    1,200 feet
  12. Bais Ruchel D'Satmar - Girls School
    1,210 feet
  13. Beth Chana DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet
  14. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet
  15. Yeshiva Yesodah Hatorah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,270 feet
  16. Bais Ruchel D'Satmar Girls Annex School
    1,300 feet
  17. Central Uta School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Taaffe Playground
    910 feet
  2. Myrtle Village Green Garden
    1,210 feet

Fire and police

  1. Ladder 102 Fire station
    600 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Chestnut Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  2. One Stop Kosher Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and 19 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 nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Park Avenue or Skillman Street.

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