Bedford Avenue & Carroll Street

Bedford Avenue and Carroll Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field is 180 feet away. The nearest subway, Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, is about six minutes on foot, for the 2, 3, 4, 5 and S. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, S
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Bedford Av/Carroll St · B49
Within a walk
12 places
7 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Carroll Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
4 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
Outbound
4 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
Franklin Av
1 line
  1. S …
Prospect Park
1 line
  1. S …

Also within a walk

  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “IL7/Square” (1999) by Millie Burns at the Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Carroll St, 110 feet away, for the B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Carroll St B49
    110 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Montgomery St 27 docks in all
    670 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 240 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
115 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1937.

Since 2014 at least 269 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2015 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-10AM ALL DAYS

North side of Carroll Street

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

South side of Carroll Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 college
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    320 feet
  2. Medgar Evers College
    770 feet
  3. Ella Baker / Charles Romain Child Development Center of Medgar Evers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,130 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jackie Robinson Playground
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    180 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    950 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and 15 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Carroll 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.