Atlantic Avenue & Crescent Street

Atlantic Avenue and Crescent Street meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 58 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. City Line Park is 810 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about three minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
54 hurt
58 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
810 feet · 3 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Atlantic Av/Crescent St · Q24
Within a walk
4 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Crescent Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crescent St, 810 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    810 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wheel of Bloom-Soak up the Sun” (2007) by Jung Hyang Kim at the Crescent St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Atlantic Av/Crescent St, 60 feet away, for the Q24.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av/Crescent St Q24
    60 feet
    Q24

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3123 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 58 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 54 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2018
  • Turn calming, June 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 839 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Crescent Street

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Crescent Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Cypress Hills Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. City Line Park
    810 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    840 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    950 feet
  2. Golden Farms Supermarket
    1,160 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    90 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 18 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Crescent Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.