Stanley Avenue & Schenck Avenue

Stanley Avenue and Schenck Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Gail Fedrick Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Achievement First Linden Charter School is 1,030 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Van Siclen Av/Stanley Av, is 620 feet away for the B83, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them schools, and nine places to eat.

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Stanley Avenue & Schenck Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Van Siclen Av/Stanley Av, 620 feet away, for the B83.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Van Siclen Av/Stanley Av B83
    620 feet
    B83

Next buses at this stop

  1. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 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
    1,310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1939 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

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

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 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
12 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Gail Fedrick Way (Local Law 10 of 2025, enacted on January 18, 2025) and Prince Joshua Avitto Way (Local Law 15 of 2015, enacted on February 5, 2015).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,700 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 1953.

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.

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
  • 53 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and January 2025, 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 Stanley Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Stanley Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 7 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Boulevard Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    830 feet
  2. Achievement First Linden Charter School
    1,030 feet
  3. The East New York Arts and Civics High School
    1,030 feet
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  1. Van Siclen Community Middle School
    1,030 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linden Park
    690 feet
  2. Jerome Playground
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Boulevard Houses Listed historic place
    520 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Boulevard Community Center
    470 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    480 feet
  2. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    860 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and seven 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

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