Pennsylvania Avenue & Wortman Avenue

Pennsylvania Avenue and Wortman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named James “Frankie” Chestnutt, Jr. Blvd by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Pennsylvania Avenue-Wortman Avenue Community Center is 370 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Wortman Av/Pennsylvania Av, is 130 feet away for the B20, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
33 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Wortman Av/Pennsylvania Av · B20
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 2 playgrounds and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pennsylvania Avenue & Wortman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wortman Av/Pennsylvania Av, 130 feet away, for the B20.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wortman Av/Pennsylvania Av B20
    130 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Wortman Avenue.

  • 34 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sheffield Ave & Linden Blvd 12 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 12113 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    1,130 feet
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 33 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, September 2023

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
14 feet above sea level

This corner is also named James “Frankie” Chestnutt, Jr. Blvd, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 400 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 1966.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the common hackberry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on James “Frankie” Chestnutt, Jr. Blvd.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

North side of Wortman Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Wortman Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING NOON-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 5AM-NOON ALL DAYS

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 320313, 320314, 326926 and 326927.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 library
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Achievement First Aspire Charter School Middle School
    730 feet
  2. P.S. 306 Ethan Allen School
    730 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ethan Allen Playground
    300 feet
  2. Linden Park
    1,200 feet
  3. Linden Park Playground
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Spring Creek Library
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Pennsylvania Avenue-Wortman Avenue Community Center
    370 feet
  2. Older adult center at 530 Stanley Avenue Older adult center
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. City Fresh Market 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 19 places to eat and 11 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Pennsylvania Avenue or Wortman 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 Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.