Crown Heights (North)

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

North of Eastern Parkway, this part of Crown Heights reaches up to Atlantic Avenue in central Brooklyn and includes historic Weeksville east of Albany Avenue.

  • 1.27 square miles
  • 85,275 residents, 2020 Census
  • 165 street corners
  • 5 subway stations
  • 17 bus routes

African Americans settled Weeksville soon after slavery ended in New York in 1827, and it became one of the largest free Black communities in America before the Civil War; its surviving Hunterfly Road Houses are now the Weeksville Heritage Center. Hundreds of freestanding houses and rowhouses went up between 1888 and 1893, followed by apartment houses from the 1920s, and the Brooklyn Children's Museum, founded in 1899 as the world's first, is on Brooklyn Avenue.

Sources: Crown Heights North Historic District Designation Report (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Weeksville Heritage Center; Weeksville, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); History & Mission (Brooklyn Children's Museum).

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Crown Heights (North) borders seven areas, and Bergen Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 21 of 165.

Street map of Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn, outlined among Crown Heights (South), Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Bedford-Stuyvesant (West) and Prospect Heights, with its five subway stations and St. John's Park.Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)Ocean HillBrownsvilleCrown Heights (South)Prospect HeightsBedford-Stuyvesant (West)
  • Crown Heights (North)
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Park Pl lines S accessible
  • Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College lines 2 3 4 5
  • Nostrand Av lines 3
  • Kingston Av lines 3
  • Crown Hts-Utica Av lines 3 4 accessible

Getting around

Five subway stations and buses on 17 routes stop in or at the edge of Crown Heights (North).

  • 5 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 17 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B12
  • B14
  • B15
  • B17
  • B43
  • B44
  • B44-SBS
  • B45
  • B46
  • B46-SBS
  • B47
  • B48
  • B49
  • B65
  • B96
  • B99
  • T440

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 4,621 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 28.0 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 3 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 109 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
103
Accessible pedestrian signals
33
Turn calming
24
Safety Improvement Projects
3
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 25,775 red-light camera tickets at six corners
  • 45,596 school-zone speed camera tickets at 18 corners
  • 2,541 bus-lane camera tickets at four corners
Most red-light tickets
Bedford Avenue & Atlantic Avenue, 13,019
Most speed tickets
Atlantic Avenue & Classon Avenue, 17,891
Most bus-lane tickets
Dean Street & Utica Avenue, 1,410

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 85,275 residents in Crown Heights (North), about 67,100 per square mile.

  • 38,277 homes, 2020 Census
  • 5,500 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,612 residential lots hold buildings from 1910 or earlier, and 91% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Albany, Albany II, Kingsborough Extension and Kingsborough developments lie wholly or partly within Crown Heights (North).

Albany
Within Crown Heights (North)
Albany II
Within Crown Heights (North)
Kingsborough Extension
Within Crown Heights (North)
Kingsborough
Partly within Crown Heights (North)

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
18.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
St. John's Park (9 acres), Brower Park (7 acres) and Woods Playground (1.4 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Studebaker Building, Saint Bartholomew's Church and 23rd Regiment Armory
Historic districts
Crown Heights North, Crown Heights North II, Crown Heights North III and Park Place, wholly or partly within Crown Heights (North)

Streets and trees

Trees
5,564 in NYC Parks' records, most often American elm, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Bergen Street, with 21 of the area's 165
Height above sea level
From 59 feet at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn Avenue to 138 feet at Eastern Parkway & Rogers Avenue
Honorary street names
16 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 35 schools and one library in Crown Heights (North).

Public schools
15
Charter and private schools
20
Library
Brower Park Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 38 bike-share stations stand in Crown Heights (North). The City's public art inventory lists two works in the area: Ulysses Simpson Grant (1896) and Sugar in My Bowl II (2012).

  • 38 bike-share stations
  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 1,066 major felonies at places in Crown Heights (North).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Crown Heights (North)

  • 909 major felonies in 2024
  • 3,384 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Crown Heights (North), the NYPD recorded another 322 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 16.3 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Crown Heights (North).

Map of Crown Heights (North): 14 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Crown Heights (North), 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Crown Heights (North), most about 1,500 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Crown Heights (North) are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Crown Heights (North) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
77th
Major felonies recorded at places in Crown Heights (North), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 429 major felonies at places in Crown Heights (North), against 487 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.