Schenck Avenue & Cozine Avenue

Schenck Avenue and Cozine Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Carolyn D. Faulkner Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. K004 is 880 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cozine Av/Schenck Av, is 30 feet away for the BM5, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them schools. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Cozine Avenue.

Safety record
13 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Cozine Av/Schenck Av · BM5
Within a walk
5 places
2 schools, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Schenck Avenue & Cozine Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cozine Av/Schenck Av, 30 feet away, for the BM5.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cozine Av/Schenck Av BM5
    30 feet
    BM5

Next buses at this stop

  1. BM5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Cozine Avenue.

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Van Siclen Ave & Linden Blvd 14 docks in all
    0.5 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1121 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 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 February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Carolyn D. Faulkner Way (Local Law 41 of 2024, enacted on January 20, 2024) and Melvin A. Faulkner Way (Local Law 81 of 2022, enacted on August 14, 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1960 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 120 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cozine Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cozine Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Schenck Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Schenck Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 273 Wortman School
    880 feet
  2. P.S. K004 School
    880 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Spring Creek Park
    660 feet
  2. Jerome Playground
    940 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Laurence RC Church House of worship
    800 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cozine Avenue or Schenck 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.