Schenck Avenue & Wortman Avenue

Schenck Avenue and Wortman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 273 Wortman is 990 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Wortman Av/Barbey St, is 130 feet away for the B20, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them parks, and one place to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Wortman Avenue.

Safety record
11 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Wortman Av/Barbey St · B20
Within a walk
9 places
2 parks, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Schenck Avenue & Wortman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wortman Av/Barbey St, 130 feet away, for the B20.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wortman Av/Barbey St B20 · Shelter
    130 feet
    B20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Wortman 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
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2025

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
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,400 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 1930 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 240 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Eighteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 59 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

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

East side of Schenck Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Schenck Avenue

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

North side of Wortman Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 5 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • Parallel parking only 7 signs PARALLEL PARKING ONLY

South side of Wortman Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Parallel parking only 4 signs PARALLEL PARKING ONLY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jerome Playground
    560 feet
  2. Spring Creek Park
    1,230 feet
  3. Linden Park
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Boulevard Houses Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Boulevard Community Center
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  2. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and three food stores.

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

See every intersection along Schenck Avenue or Wortman 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.