Saratoga Avenue & Riverdale Avenue

Saratoga Avenue and Riverdale Avenue 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. Riverdale Avenue Middle School is 510 feet away. The nearest subway, Saratoga Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Saratoga Av
540 feet · 2 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Riverdale Av/Saratoga Av · B99
Within a walk
14 places
8 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Saratoga Avenue & Riverdale Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Saratoga Av, 540 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. Saratoga Av 3
    540 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Rockaway Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Chandelier” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Saratoga Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverdale Av/Saratoga Av, 60 feet away, for the B99.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverdale Av/Saratoga Av B99
    60 feet
    B99

Next buses at this stop

  1. B99 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Saratoga Avenue.

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverdale Ave & E 98 St 16 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, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 24 Dumont Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 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.

  • 3 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 August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2021
  • Turn calming, April 2022

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
27 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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 September 2016 and September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Riverdale Avenue

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

South side of Riverdale Avenue

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

East side of Saratoga Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Saratoga Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Riverdale Avenue Community School
    510 feet
  2. Riverdale Avenue Middle School
    510 feet
  3. Sco Family of Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet
Show all 4
  1. Step by Step Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    800 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Betsy Head Park
    890 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Peoples Baptist Church House of worship
    650 feet

Fire and police

  1. Division 15/Engine 283 Fire station
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    540 feet
  2. Green Village Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverdale Avenue or Saratoga 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.