Sheffield Avenue & Wortman Avenue

Sheffield Avenue and Wortman Avenue meet at a three-way junction in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Achievement First Aspire Charter School Middle School is 1,000 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Wortman Av/Pennsylvania Av, is 410 feet away for the B20, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them schools, and 19 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Wortman Avenue.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Wortman Av/Pennsylvania Av · B20
Within a walk
7 places
2 schools, 1 community center and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sheffield Avenue & Wortman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wortman Av/Pennsylvania Av, 410 feet away, for the B20.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wortman Av/Pennsylvania Av B20
    410 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Wortman Avenue.

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sheffield Ave & Linden Blvd 12 docks in all
    0.3 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. 12113 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 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
12 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 in 1966.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday noon to 7pm on Wortman Avenue (south side).

East side of Sheffield Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of Sheffield Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

North side of Wortman Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 320313.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Achievement First Aspire Charter School Middle School
    1,000 feet
  2. P.S. 306 Ethan Allen School
    1,000 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ethan Allen Playground
    570 feet
  2. Breukelen Ballfields Park
    1,110 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Pennsylvania Avenue-Wortman Avenue Community Center
    650 feet
  2. Older adult center at 530 Stanley Avenue Older adult center
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and ten 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Sheffield Avenue or Wortman Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.