Wortman Avenue & Hendrix Place

Wortman Avenue and Hendrix Place meet at a three-way junction in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jerome Playground is 810 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Wortman Av/Van Siclen Av, is 250 feet away for the B20, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Wortman Avenue.

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Wortman Avenue & Hendrix Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wortman Av/Van Siclen Av, 250 feet away, for the B20.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Wortman Avenue.

  • 5 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
    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

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2023.

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

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,400 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 between 1930 and 1963.

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

Trees

Twenty trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 273 Wortman School
    1,240 feet
  2. P.S. K004 School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jerome Playground
    810 feet
  2. Linden Park
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    960 feet
  2. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,230 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • 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, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.