Van Siclen Avenue & Wortman Avenue

Van Siclen Avenue and Wortman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Wayne Mackie Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Laurence RC Church is 1,030 feet away, and Ethan Allen Playground is 1,080 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Wortman Av/Van Siclen Av, is 50 feet away for the B20. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them schools, and five places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Wortman Av/Van Siclen Av · B20
Within a walk
8 places
3 schools, 2 playgrounds and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Van Siclen Avenue & Wortman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wortman Av/Van Siclen Av, 50 feet away, for the B20.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wortman Av/Van Siclen Av B20 · Shelter
    50 feet
    B20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Van Siclen Avenue and Wortman Avenue.

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Van Siclen Ave & Linden Blvd 14 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. 1121 Pennsylvania Avenue 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
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

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

This corner is also named Wayne Mackie Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,000 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 1955 and 1963.

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

Trees

Fourteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Wayne Mackie Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2022 and November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Van Siclen Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Van Siclen 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 standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Wortman Avenue

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Parallel parking only 9 signs PARALLEL PARKING ONLY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Achievement First Linden Charter School
    1,120 feet
  2. The East New York Arts and Civics High School
    1,120 feet
  3. Van Siclen Community Middle School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linden Park
    770 feet
  2. Ethan Allen Playground
    1,080 feet
  3. Jerome Playground
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Laurence RC Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    940 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and four 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:

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