Pennsylvania Avenue & Liberty Avenue

Pennsylvania Avenue and Liberty Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 88 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School is 420 feet away, and Williams Avenue Community Garden is 1,250 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about a minute on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
50 hurt
88 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
70 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Liberty Av · B20, B83
Within a walk
20 places
13 religious buildings, 1 ambulance station and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pennsylvania Avenue & Liberty Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 70 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av C
    70 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Alabama Av J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z
  2. Atlantic Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Liberty Av, 110 feet away, for the B20 and B83.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Liberty Av B20, B83
    110 feet
    B20 B83

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Liberty Avenue.

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pennsylvania Ave & Atlantic Ave 19 docks in all
    460 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    1,120 feet
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 88 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 50 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 9 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021
  • Turn calming, September 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 329 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and June 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Liberty Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Liberty Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • Time-limited parking 3 signs 1 HOUR PARKING 10AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    420 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grace Playground
    1,240 feet
  2. Williams Avenue Community Garden
    1,250 feet

Health care

  1. Bushwick Center for Rehabilitation and Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    1,140 feet
  2. EMS Station 39 Ambulance station
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    530 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. East New York Post Office
    630 feet
  2. East New York Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Liberty Avenue or Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.