Pitkin Avenue & New Jersey Avenue

Pitkin Avenue and New Jersey Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Russian Orthodox Church is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and six places to eat. About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
1,210 feet · 5 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
400 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Pitkin Av · B20, B83
Within a walk
20 places
11 religious buildings, 5 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pitkin Avenue & New Jersey Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 1,210 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Liberty Av C
    1,210 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Van Siclen Av C
    1,230 feet
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Pitkin Av, 400 feet away, for the B20 and B83.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Pitkin Av B20, B83
    400 feet
    B20 B83

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Pitkin Avenue.

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pennsylvania Ave & Pitkin Ave 11 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 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 October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

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 (North)
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 114 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the willow oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of New Jersey Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of New Jersey Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Pitkin Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCKS LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-3PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Achievement First Apollo Middle Charter School
    610 feet
  2. Achievement First East Brooklyn High School
    610 feet
  3. Bard High School Early College Brooklyn School
    610 feet
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  1. J.H.S. 292 Margaret S. Douglas School
    610 feet
  2. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    790 feet
  3. Canarsie Children First Academy School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grace Playground
    40 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 39 Ambulance station
    460 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fiorentino Plaza Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    440 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    140 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,200 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along New Jersey Avenue or Pitkin 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.