Albany Avenue & Crown Street

Albany Avenue and Crown Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. United Lubavitcher Yeshiva is 230 feet away, and Chanoch Lenaar is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
Kingston Av/Montgomery St · B43
Within a walk
20 places
10 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Albany Avenue & Crown Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingston Av/Montgomery St, 950 feet away, for the B43.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av/Montgomery St B43 · Shelter
    950 feet
    B43
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Albany Ave & Carroll St 19 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
96 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 1920 and 1929.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and December 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

West side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

North side of Crown Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Crown Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 field
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    150 feet
  2. United Lubavitcher Yeshiva School
    230 feet
  3. United Lubavitch Yeshiva Pre-K
    230 feet
Show all 8
  1. Cheeryos Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    370 feet
  2. Cheeryos Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    370 feet
  3. Beis Chaya Muska School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    920 feet
  4. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    1,100 feet
  5. Chanoch Lenaar School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hamilton Metz Field
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 483 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    900 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Albany Avenue or Crown Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.