Albany Avenue & St Johns Place

Albany Avenue and St Johns Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 49 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Johns Place Post Office is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 30 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
33 hurt
49 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Albany Av · B45
Within a walk
30 places
12 religious buildings, 8 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Albany Avenue & St Johns Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.4 miles
    3 4

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/Albany Av, 110 feet away, for the B45.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/Albany Av B45 · Shelter
    110 feet
    B45
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Johns Place.

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Johns Pl & Kingston Ave 22 docks in all
    830 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 49 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 33 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 11 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2024
  • Turn calming, April 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
101 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1902 and 1923.

Since 2014 at least 23 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 221 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1899 and 1906.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 8 schools
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 museum
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Annex School
    640 feet
  2. Chanoch Lenaar School
    830 feet
  3. Edwards L. Cleaveland Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
Show all 14
  1. Chabad Girls Academy School
    940 feet
  2. Kipp Always Mentally Prepared Charter School
    1,010 feet
  3. Kipp Amp Elementary Charter School
    1,010 feet
  4. The School of Integrated Learning School
    1,010 feet
  5. Creative Learning Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  6. Little Angel Day Care Center VI Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,040 feet
  7. Arista Prep School
    1,040 feet
  8. Yeled Vyalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,120 feet
  9. Lighthouse Early Learning Center School
    1,130 feet
  10. Sunshine Infant & Toddler Program Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,210 feet
  11. Arista Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jewish Children's Museum
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Church of God in Christ House of worship
    1,090 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. St Johns Place Post Office
    520 feet
  2. Older adult center at 230 Kingston Avenue Older adult center
    1,090 feet
  3. Older adult center at 196 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,210 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Albany Avenue or St Johns Place.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.