Bedford Avenue & Bergen Street

Bedford Avenue and Bergen Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Bishop Washington Plaza by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Washington Temple Church God is 120 feet away, and Westbrook Memorial Garden is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Bedford Av/Bergen St · B49
Within a walk
22 places
13 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Bergen Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand 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. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.3 miles
    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. Park Pl S
    0.3 miles
    S
  2. Franklin Av C, S
    0.4 miles
    C S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Bergen St, 120 feet away, for the B49.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Bergen St B49
    120 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue and Bergen Street.

  • 38 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Bergen St 24 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    1,120 feet
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35 and 36 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
89 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Bishop Washington Plaza, a co-naming enacted on February 28, 1992 (Local Law 17 of 1992).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 110 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Bishop Washington Plaza.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 63 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Queen Anne. They were mostly built between 1889 and 1892.

  1. The Union League Club Designated landmark
    270 feet
  2. 23rd Regiment Armory Designated landmark
    800 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
    180 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    920 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grant Gore Park
    110 feet
  2. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    370 feet
  3. Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
    590 feet
Show all 5
  1. Westbrook Memorial Garden
    940 feet
  2. 1100 Bergen Street Community Garden
    1,010 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    180 feet
  2. Nassau Brewery Listed historic place
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    120 feet
  2. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    230 feet
  3. St Bartholemew Episcopal Church Landmark · listed historic place
    730 feet
Show all 5
  1. South Brooklyn Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    750 feet
  2. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,100 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 19 Rogers Avenue Older adult center
    360 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Bergen Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, 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.