Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Atlantic Avenue and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Van Voorhees Playground is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Atlantic Av, is 190 feet away for the B61, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
a ramp starts at this corner
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Columbia St/Atlantic Av · B61
Within a walk
17 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 3 playgrounds and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Atlantic Av, 190 feet away, for the B61.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Atlantic Av B61
    190 feet
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Atlantic Ave & Furman St 55 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

A ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound starts at this corner.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11201
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
76 and 84 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brooklyn Heights
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 114 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 216 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1846 and 1886.

  1. 1st Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    560 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 parks
  • 1 college
  • 1 dog run
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. MS Lam Montessori School
    450 feet
  2. Long Island Coll Hosp Sch of Nrsing College
    630 feet
  3. Kinder Prep Childcare 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
Show all 7
  1. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  2. Kinder Prep Childcare and Enrichment Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    990 feet
  3. Brooklyn Preschool of Science Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,160 feet
  4. St. Ann's Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Van Voorhees Playground
    40 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Park
    50 feet
  3. Adam Yauch Park Playground
    160 feet
Show all 6
  1. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run
    330 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    410 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park Zone 6 Playground
    580 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospital - Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center Hospital
    630 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Listed historic place
    1,100 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 224 Fire station
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other places

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Ferry Landing
    870 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

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