Pitkin Avenue & Drew Street

Pitkin Avenue and Drew Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 381 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Belmont Playground is 470 feet away. The nearest subway, Grant Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grant Av
960 feet · 4 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
500 feet
Pitkin Av/76 St · Q112
Within a walk
10 places
6 religious buildings, 1 garden and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pitkin Avenue & Drew Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grant Av, 960 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grant Av A
    960 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. A …
Queens
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. 80 St A
    0.3 miles
    A
  2. Euclid Av A, C
    0.5 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pitkin Av/76 St, 500 feet away, for the Q112.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pitkin Av/76 St Q112
    500 feet
    Q112

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q112 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Cross Bay Boulevard, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 519 Autumn Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2018

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 381 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,343rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 166 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-City Line
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Drew Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Drew Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Pitkin Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Pitkin Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 214 Michael Friedsam School
    260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Belmont Playground
    470 feet
  2. BACDYS Garden (Bangladeshi American Development and Youth Services) Garden
    730 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Liberty Avenue War Memorial Monument or memorial
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Golden Farms Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 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 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Drew Street or Pitkin Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, 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.