Wortman Avenue & Warwick Street

Wortman Avenue and Warwick Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 273 Wortman is 470 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Wortman Av/Jerome St, is 160 feet away for the B20, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them schools, and two places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Wortman Avenue.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
Wortman Av/Jerome St · B20
Within a walk
6 places
2 schools, 1 community center and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Wortman Avenue & Warwick Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wortman Av/Jerome St, 160 feet away, for the B20.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wortman Av/Jerome St B20
    160 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Wortman Avenue.

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1121 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2024

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
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Warwick Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Warwick Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Wortman Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 273 Wortman School
    470 feet
  2. P.S. K004 School
    470 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jerome Playground
    50 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Boulevard Houses Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Boulevard Community Center
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Warwick 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.