Pennsylvania Avenue & Delmar Loop

Pennsylvania Avenue and Delmar Loop meet at a three-way junction in Spring Creek-Starrett City, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Spring Creek Post Office is 430 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Pennsylvania Av/Delmar Loop North, is 250 feet away for the B83, BM2 and BM5, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Delmar Loop North · B83, BM2, BM5
Within a walk
4 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 older adult center and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pennsylvania Avenue & Delmar Loop Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Delmar Loop North, 250 feet away, for the B83, BM2 and BM5.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Delmar Loop North B83, BM2, BM5
    250 feet
    B83 BM2 BM5

Next buses at this stop

  1. B83 …
  2. BM2 …
  3. BM5 …

Live arrivals

Pennsylvania Avenue carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1121 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11239
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Spring Creek-Starrett City
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,200 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 1970 and 1972.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2023 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Delmar Loop

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Delmar Loop

  • No parking 18 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Starrett Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    620 feet
  2. Starret Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Spring Creek Post Office
    430 feet
  2. Older adult center at 47 Vandalia Avenue Older adult center
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    600 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,210 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.