Pennsylvania Avenue & Belmont Avenue

Pennsylvania Avenue and Belmont Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 48 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. Russian Orthodox Church is 900 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
48 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Belmont Av · B20, B83
Within a walk
15 places
6 religious buildings, 6 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pennsylvania Avenue & Belmont Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Van Siclen Av C
    0.4 miles
    C
  2. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Belmont Av, 100 feet away, for the B20 and B83.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Belmont Av B20, B83
    100 feet
    B20 B83

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pennsylvania Ave & Pitkin Ave 11 docks in all
    530 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 48 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 21 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2016
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37 and 42 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
35 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Belmont Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Belmont Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • Ambulances only 2 signs AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Achievement First Apollo Middle Charter School
    920 feet
  2. Achievement First East Brooklyn High School
    920 feet
  3. Bard High School Early College Brooklyn School
    920 feet
Show all 6
  1. J.H.S. 292 Margaret S. Douglas School
    920 feet
  2. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    1,140 feet
  3. P.S. 149 Danny Kaye School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grace Playground
    130 feet
  2. Artsy Bloom Community Garden
    1,310 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 39 Ambulance station
    300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    610 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    890 feet
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Belmont Avenue or Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.