Atlantic Avenue & Furman Street

Atlantic Avenue and Furman Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Van Voorhees Playground is 290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Atlantic Av, is 320 feet away for the B61, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 19 places to eat. About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
380 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Columbia St/Atlantic Av · B61
Within a walk
14 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Furman Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Atlantic Av, 320 feet away, for the B61.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 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
    130 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 380 feet by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2019

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
10 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Furman Street

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Furman Street

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 99 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1846 and 1890.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Kinder Prep Childcare 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    270 feet
  2. Kinder Prep Childcare and Enrichment Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    610 feet
  3. MS Lam Montessori School
    820 feet
Show all 5
  1. Long Island Coll Hosp Sch of Nrsing College
    1,010 feet
  2. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    40 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Park
    120 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park Zone 6 Playground
    200 feet
Show all 7
  1. Van Voorhees Playground
    290 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run
    350 feet
  3. Adam Yauch Park Playground
    510 feet
  4. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    940 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospital - Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center Hospital
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other places

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Ferry Landing
    490 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Furman Street.

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