Rockaway Parkway & Skidmore Avenue

Rockaway Parkway and Skidmore Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 63 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 6,640 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Canarsie Park is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Pkwy/Skidmore Av, is 230 feet away for the B42, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places and nine places to eat.

Safety record
41 hurt
63 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
920 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Rockaway Pkwy/Skidmore Av · B42
Within a walk
9 places
1 community center, 1 day care or pre-K site and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Parkway & Skidmore Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Pkwy/Skidmore Av, 230 feet away, for the B42.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Pkwy/Skidmore Av B42
    230 feet
    B42

Next buses at this stop

  1. B42 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 920 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 9612 Rockaway Parkway Gas station
    930 feet
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 63 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 39 people injured
  • 2 people killed
  • 10 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 6,640 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 120th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 3,055 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,900 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 in 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Mushashino' zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2019 and July 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Rockaway Parkway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 7:30AM-8AM

North side of Skidmore Avenue

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

South side of Skidmore Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Our Lady of Trust Catholic Academy School
    860 feet
  2. Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Canarsie Park
    620 feet
  2. Bayview Playground
    1,030 feet
  3. Canarsie Neighborhood Farm and Garden
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jamaica Bay Library
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Jude Church House of worship
    1,070 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Hebrew Educational Society Community Center
    1,100 feet
  2. Older adult center at 9502 Seaview Avenue Older adult center
    1,180 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    800 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    230 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rockaway Parkway or Skidmore Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.