Pitkin Avenue & Williams Avenue

Pitkin Avenue and Williams Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. TLC Sculpture Park Garden is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
1,070 feet
Sutter Av/Williams Av · B14
Within a walk
7 places
4 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pitkin Avenue & Williams Avenue 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.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  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. Liberty Av C
    0.4 miles
    C
  2. 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 Sutter Av/Williams Av, 1,070 feet away, for the B14.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av/Williams Av B14 · Shelter
    1,070 feet
    B14
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Pitkin Avenue and Williams Avenue.

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Williams Ave & Pitkin Ave 12 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 32 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
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

Within 820 feet of this corner are 24 homes, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the dawn redwood and the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2018 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Pitkin Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

South side of Pitkin Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

East side of Williams Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

West side of Williams Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 police station

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. TLC Sculpture Park Garden
    730 feet
  2. Williams Avenue Community Garden
    1,130 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #2 Police station
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and six 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 Williams 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.