Pennsylvania Avenue & Hegeman Avenue

Pennsylvania Avenue and Hegeman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Antonio Fields Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 53 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Collegiate Academy for Mathematics and Personal Awareness Charter School is 1,080 feet away, and Prophecy Garden is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Pennsylvania Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
34 hurt
53 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Pennsylvania Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Hegeman Av · B20
Within a walk
17 places
9 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pennsylvania Avenue & Hegeman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Pennsylvania Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Urban Garden Rail” (2017) by Saya Woolfalk at the Pennsylvania Av station.

Bus

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

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Hegeman Av B20
    100 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hegeman Ave & Vermont St 14 docks in all
    520 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1939 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    500 feet
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 53 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 34 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2015
  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Antonio Fields Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Antonio Fields Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2014 and January 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Hegeman Avenue

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 6AM-6:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 213 New Lots School
    450 feet
  2. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
  3. Collegiate Academy for Mathematics and Personal Awareness Charter School
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. Strawberry Patch Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sheffield Garden
    560 feet
  2. Prophecy Garden
    1,110 feet
  3. Linden Park
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. Georgia Avenue Community Garden
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    950 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hegeman 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.