St Marks Avenue & Saratoga Avenue

St Marks Avenue and Saratoga Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sh'ma Yisrael is 930 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Saratoga Av/Saint Marks Av, is 120 feet away for the B7, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
6 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Saratoga Av/Saint Marks Av · B7
Within a walk
19 places
10 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Marks Avenue & Saratoga Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saratoga Av/Saint Marks Av, 120 feet away, for the B7.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saratoga Av/Saint Marks Av B7
    120 feet
    B7

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Marks Avenue.

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Saratoga Ave 20 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 519 Howard Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
92 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 486 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Saratoga Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Saratoga Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

South side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Webble Wobble Achievers Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    530 feet
  2. Wiser Choice Learning Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  3. P.S. 178 Saint Clair McKelway School
    1,040 feet
Show all 5
  1. Dr. Jacqueline Peek-Davis School
    1,070 feet
  2. Ronald Edmonds Learning Center II School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Farmers Garden
    830 feet
  2. Sh'ma Yisrael Garden
    930 feet
  3. Prospect Plaza Park
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Ararat Baptist Church House of worship
    830 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at Brown Older adult center
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 12 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Saratoga Avenue or St Marks 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.