Riverdale Avenue & Watkins Street

Riverdale Avenue and Watkins Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nehemiah Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and two places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
1,320 feet · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Riverdale Av/Mother Gaston Blvd · B99
Within a walk
20 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverdale Avenue & Watkins Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 1,320 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av 3
    1,320 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Junius St 3
    0.3 miles
    3
  2. Livonia Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Paroles Vagabondes/Wisdom Along the Way” (2017) by Béatrice Lebreton at the Rockaway Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverdale Av/Mother Gaston Blvd, 250 feet away, for the B99.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverdale Av/Mother Gaston Blvd B99
    250 feet
    B99

Next buses at this stop

  1. B99 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverdale Ave & Osborn St 16 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 1975 and 1986.

Since 2014 at least 145 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 117 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

East side of Watkins Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Watkins Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Salvation Army Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    110 feet
  2. Mott Hall IV School
    760 feet
  3. P.S. 041 Francis White School
    760 feet
Show all 8
  1. Kids-Centric, Inc Pal World Creative School
    840 feet
  2. Saint Christopher Ottlie Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
  3. Sco Family of Services Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2 · Pre-K
    840 feet
  4. P.S. 184 Newport School
    880 feet
  5. P.A.L./W.O.C.E. Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Nehemiah Park
    40 feet
  2. Nehemiah Park Playground
    90 feet
  3. Newport Playground
    310 feet
Show all 6
  1. Floyd Patterson Ballfields Park
    320 feet
  2. Abib Newborn Garden
    880 feet
  3. Newport Garden
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Mercy Church House of worship
    280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 230 Riverdale Avenue Older adult center
    680 feet
  2. Tilden Community Center
    850 feet
  3. Older adult center at 630 Mother Gaston Boulevard Older adult center
    850 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 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 signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverdale Avenue or Watkins Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, 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.