Atlantic Avenue & Boerum Place

Atlantic Avenue and Boerum Place meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 81 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. New York Transit Museum is 610 feet away, and Brooklyn Law School is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about four minutes on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 90 places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
81 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
1,180 feet · 4 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Atlantic Av/Boerum Pl · B61, B63
Within a walk
22 places
6 religious buildings, 6 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Boerum Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 1,180 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St F, G
    1,180 feet
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Jay St-MetroTech A, C, F, R
    0.3 miles
    A C F R
  2. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Atlantic Av/Boerum Pl, 100 feet away, for the B61 and B63.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av/Boerum Pl B61, B63
    100 feet
    B61 B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …
  2. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Boerum Place.

  • 112 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. State St & Smith St 66 docks in all
    760 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 81 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2012
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11201
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33
Police precinct
84
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brooklyn Heights
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 17 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 43 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2022 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Boerum Place (west side).

North side of Atlantic Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUDNAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Atlantic Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-4PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

East side of Boerum Place

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLE ONLY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 3AM-7AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 300183, 300274, 342536 and 342539.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are ten Individual Landmarks, and 60 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Anglo-Italianate. They were mostly built between 1850 and 1879.

  1. Friends Meeting House Designated landmark
    470 feet
  2. South Brooklyn Savings Bank Designated landmark
    640 feet
  3. Public School No. 78 Designated landmark
    790 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 2 courthouses
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 public spaces
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Frontiers High School
    630 feet
  2. SS Constantine Greek Orthodox Church School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  3. A Fantis Parochial School
    680 feet
Show all 10
  1. American Bus Inst of Brooklyn Trade or language school
    850 feet
  2. Brooklyn Hts Montessori School
    930 feet
  3. Sterling School
    940 feet
  4. Mary McDowell Friends School-Element School
    1,000 feet
  5. Ladybug Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,000 feet
  6. P.S. 261 Zipporiah Mills School
    1,260 feet
  7. Brooklyn Law School College
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Livingston Plaza Public space
    910 feet
  2. Public space at 111 Livingston Street Public space
    1,050 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New York Transit Museum
    610 feet
  2. State Street Houses Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Antioch Pentecostal Church Landmark
    660 feet
  2. St Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    720 feet
  3. Saint Pauls RC Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Brooklyn Criminal Court Courthouse
    660 feet
  2. Brooklyn Civil Court Courthouse
    1,120 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    70 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    520 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    690 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  3. Union Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    640 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    850 feet
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 90 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Boerum 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, 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.