Bedford Avenue & Atlantic Avenue

Bedford Avenue and Atlantic Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 134 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. In 2025, 20 bus-lane and 13,019 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. A designated landmark, 23rd Regiment Armory, stands 200 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places and 31 places to eat.

Safety record
84 hurt
134 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
630 feet · 2 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
Bedford Av/Atlantic Av · B49
Within a walk
20 places
11 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Atlantic Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 630 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    630 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av C, S
    0.3 miles
    C S
  2. Park Pl S
    0.5 miles
    S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Atlantic Av, 160 feet away, for the B49.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Atlantic Av B49
    160 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Bedford Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brevoort Pl & Bedford Ave 24 docks in all
    630 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. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    190 feet
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 134 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 82 people injured
  • 2 people killed
  • 13 of those hurt, on foot
  • 14 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 13,019 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 3rd most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 9,175 more were issued.

Red-light camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Westbound on Atlantic Avenue6,1102,532
Eastbound on Atlantic Avenue5,0522,787
Northbound on Bedford Avenue1,8573,856
Total13,0199,175

In 2025, 20 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 172nd most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets · Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
35 and 36 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77 and 79 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
78 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 127 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING 4PM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • Ambulances and ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULANCE AMBULETTE ONLY 6AM-8PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No stopping 5 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 34 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1888 and 1890.

  1. 23rd Regiment Armory Designated landmark
    200 feet
  2. The Union League Club Designated landmark
    740 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Grant Square Gore.

  1. Ulysses Simpson Grant Statue by William Ordway Partridge, 1896
    740 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Westbrook Memorial Garden
    470 feet
  2. Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
    540 feet
  3. Grant Gore Park
    810 feet
Show all 6
  1. United Herkimer Garden Club Garden
    1,270 feet
  2. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    1,280 feet
  3. John Hancock Playground
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    740 feet

Houses of worship

  1. South Brooklyn Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    190 feet
  2. St Bartholemew Episcopal Church Landmark · listed historic place
    330 feet
  3. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    830 feet
Show all 7
  1. Redemption Church of Christ House of worship
    930 feet
  2. Friendship Baptist Church Listed historic place
    940 feet
  3. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    1,000 feet
  4. Pilgrim Holiness Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Breevort Post Office
    570 feet
  2. Older adult center at 19 Rogers Avenue Older adult center
    760 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Bedford 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.