Atlantic Avenue & Classon Avenue

Atlantic Avenue and Classon Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 35 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 17,891 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Lefferts Place Community Garden is 230 feet away, and Brooklyn's Finest Garden is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, Franklin Av, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
35 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Franklin Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · C, S
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Classon Av/Atlantic Av · B48
Within a walk
19 places
10 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Classon Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Franklin Av C, S
    0.3 miles
    C S

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …
Prospect Park
1 line
  1. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.3 miles
    A C
  2. Park Pl S
    0.4 miles
    S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Life and Continued Growth” (1999) by Eric Pryor at the Franklin Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Classon Av/Atlantic Av, 90 feet away, for the B48.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Classon Av/Atlantic Av B48
    90 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Classon Avenue.

  • 29 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pacific St & Classon Ave 21 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 540 Waverly Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 35 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 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

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2019

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 17,891 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 26th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 8,465 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on Atlantic Avenue9,8424,549
Westbound on Atlantic Avenue8,0493,916
Total17,8918,465

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35 and 36 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77 and 79 and 88 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
83 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 240 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Kentucky coffeetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Atlantic Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Italianate Villa, and built in 1854.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bumblebees-R-Us Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2 · Pre-K
    760 feet
  2. Magic Moments Academy Preschool & Child Care Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  3. Playto Pacific Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,040 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn Prospect Charter School-Clinton Hill Middle School
    1,260 feet
  2. Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13 School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lefferts Place Community Garden
    230 feet
  2. Crispus Attucks Playground
    710 feet
  3. Brooklyn's Finest Garden
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Clinton Hill South Historic District Listed historic place
    850 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Peter Claver Church House of worship
    1,120 feet
  2. St Johns Church God FBH House of worship
    1,150 feet
  3. Epiphany RC Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  2. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,170 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Classon Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.