Pennsylvania Avenue & Vandalia Avenue

Pennsylvania Avenue and Vandalia Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Spring Creek-Starrett City, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 33 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Spring Creek Post Office is 950 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Pennsylvania Av/Vandalia Av, is 60 feet away for the B82 SBS, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and eight places to eat.

Safety record
23 hurt
33 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Vandalia Av · B82 SBS
Within a walk
4 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 library and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pennsylvania Avenue & Vandalia Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Vandalia Av, 60 feet away, for the B82 SBS.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Vandalia Av B82 SBS
    60 feet
    B82 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 SBS …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1121 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    1,030 feet
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 33 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 23 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 2,300 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 1972 and 1999.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 42 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Pennsylvania Avenue

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

North side of Vandalia Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM

South side of Vandalia 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.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Starrett Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Spring Creek Library
    1,120 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 47 Vandalia Avenue Older adult center
    760 feet
  2. Spring Creek Post Office
    950 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    1,090 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

See every intersection along Pennsylvania Avenue or Vandalia Avenue.

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