Vermont Street & Wortman Avenue

Vermont Street and Wortman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Kevin Oslen Hill Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 306 Ethan Allen is 460 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Wortman Av/Vermont St, is 110 feet away for the B20, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Wortman Av/Vermont St · B20
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Vermont Street & Wortman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wortman Av/Vermont St, 110 feet away, for the B20.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wortman Av/Vermont St B20
    110 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Wortman Avenue.

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hegeman Ave & Vermont St 14 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1.1 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
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 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 Kevin Oslen Hill Way, a co-naming enacted on December 20, 2010 (Local Law 3 of 2011).

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 1955 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Kevin Oslen Hill Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 69 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Vermont Street

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

West side of Vermont Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Wortman Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Wortman Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Parallel parking only 5 signs PARALLEL PARKING ONLY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Achievement First Aspire Charter School Middle School
    460 feet
  2. P.S. 306 Ethan Allen School
    460 feet
  3. Collegiate Academy for Mathematics and Personal Awareness Charter School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ethan Allen Playground
    60 feet
  2. Linden Park
    680 feet
  3. Linden Park Playground
    730 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Pennsylvania Avenue-Wortman Avenue Community Center
    900 feet
  2. Older adult center at 530 Stanley Avenue Older adult center
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and nine 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 Vermont Street 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.