Pennsylvania Avenue & Schroeders Avenue

Pennsylvania Avenue and Schroeders Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Spring Creek-Starrett City, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 2,198 bus-lane and 6,848 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Frederick Douglass Academy VIII Middle School is 420 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Pennsylvania Av/Schroeders Av, is 60 feet away for the B82, B82 SBS, BM2 and BM5. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them schools, and five places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Schroeders Av · B82, B82 SBS, BM2, BM5
Within a walk
7 places
4 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pennsylvania Avenue & Schroeders Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Schroeders Av, 60 feet away, for the B82, B82 SBS, BM2 and BM5.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Schroeders Av B82, B82 SBS, BM2, BM5
    60 feet
    B82 B82 SBS BM2 BM5

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …
  2. B82 SBS …
  3. BM2 …
  4. BM5 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2016

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 6,848 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 112th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 3,725 more were issued.

In 2025, 2,198 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 77th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 616 more were issued.

Bus-lane camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Southbound on Pennsylvania Avenue1,615299
Northbound on Pennsylvania Avenue583317
Total2,198616

Every corner with speed camera tickets · Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

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
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,200 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 in 1975.

Trees

Thirteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Schroeders Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Schroeders Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Starret Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    60 feet
  2. Starrett Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    340 feet
  3. Frederick Douglass Academy VIII Middle School
    420 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 346 Abe Stark School
    420 feet
  2. Beer Hagolah Inst High School
    1,060 feet
  3. Beer Hagolah Institute-Elem School
    1,060 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Spring Creek Post Office
    540 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    430 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    470 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Pennsylvania Avenue or Schroeders Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.