Pitkin Avenue & Powell Street

Pitkin Avenue and Powell Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Low Houses development. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Houston Playground is 510 feet away, and Christopher Avenue Community School is 1,080 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
910 feet
Mother Gaston Blvd/Pitkin Av · B14
Within a walk
23 places
11 religious buildings, 3 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pitkin Avenue & Powell Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Sutter Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Atlantic Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Habitat for the Yellow Bird” (2007) by Takayo Noda at the Sutter Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Mother Gaston Blvd/Pitkin Av, 910 feet away, for the B14.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mother Gaston Blvd/Pitkin Av B14
    910 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Pitkin Avenue and Powell Street.

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Powell St & Belmont Ave 15 docks in all
    520 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
37 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
44 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 1966 and 1967.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Low Houses development.

Since 2014 at least 177 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and November 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Pitkin Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Pitkin Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Powell Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Powell Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Nat Azarow Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    640 feet
  2. P.S. 150 Christopher School
    1,000 feet
  3. Christopher Avenue Community School
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. Uncommon Brownsville North Charter School NYC School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Powell Playground
    160 feet
  2. Houston Playground
    510 feet
  3. Carter G. Woodson Children's Park
    1,030 feet
Show all 4
  1. McLeod Community Garden
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Charity Baptist Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Seth Low Community Center
    940 feet
  2. Older adult center at 137 Belmont Avenue Older adult center
    940 feet
  3. Older adult center at 1777 Pitkin Avenue Older adult center
    980 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 44/Engine 231/Ladder 120 Fire station
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    990 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and 13 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 Pitkin Avenue or Powell Street.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.