Pennsylvania Avenue & Seaview Avenue

Pennsylvania Avenue and Seaview Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Spring Creek-Starrett City, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 43 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,604 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Shirley Chisholm State Park is 760 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Pennsylvania Av/Seaview Av, is 50 feet away for the B82, B83, BM2 and BM5, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places.

Safety record
30 hurt
43 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
170 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Seaview Av · B82, B83, BM2, BM5
Within a walk
3 places
1 garden, 1 nature area and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pennsylvania Avenue & Seaview Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Seaview Av, 50 feet away, for the B82, B83, BM2 and BM5.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Seaview Av B82, B83, BM2, BM5
    50 feet
    B82 B83 BM2 BM5

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …
  2. B83 …
  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

A marked bike lane runs on Seaview Avenue.

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 170 feet by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 43 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 29 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,604 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 111th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 516 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light 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
  • A designated truck route

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 1972.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 50 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2016 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of Seaview Avenue

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Seaview Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 garden
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Shirley Chisholm State Park
    760 feet
  2. Ying & Yang Garden
    980 feet
  3. Fresh Creek Nature Preserve Nature area
    1,040 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Pennsylvania Avenue or Seaview Avenue.

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