Bedford Avenue & Avenue P

Bedford Avenue and Avenue P meet at a four-way crossing in Madison, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Ruth Bader Ginsburg Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. James Madison High School is 690 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kings Hwy/Bedford Av, is 560 feet away for the B7 and B82, and 11 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
Kings Hwy/Bedford Av · B7, B82
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Avenue P Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/Bedford Av, 560 feet away, for the B7 and B82.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/Bedford Av B7, B82
    560 feet
    B7 B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …
  2. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.6 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.

  • 9 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2022
  • Turn calming, December 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Madison
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Ruth Bader Ginsburg Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1936.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Ruth Bader Ginsburg Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Avenue P

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-6PM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 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 Dutch Colonial, and built in 1766.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. James Madison High School
    690 feet
  2. Bright Smiles Childcare Pre-K
    760 feet
  3. P.S. 197 - the Kings Highway Academy School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Corporal Wiltshire Square
    1,210 feet

Health care

  1. Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital
    1,050 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead Listed historic place
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Domino Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Green Forest Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue P or Bedford Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.