Bedford Avenue & Clarkson Avenue

Bedford Avenue and Clarkson Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 33 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bethanie SDA French Church is 230 feet away, and Bethany Gospel Chapel is 1,270 feet away. The nearest subway, Parkside Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them day care or pre-K sites, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
27 hurt
33 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Parkside Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Clarkson Av/Bedford Av · B12
Within a walk
16 places
7 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Clarkson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Parkside Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Parkside Av Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Winthrop St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Parkside Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clarkson Av/Bedford Av, 120 feet away, for the B12.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clarkson Av/Bedford Av B12
    120 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Lenox Rd 20 docks in all
    450 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2193 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 33 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 27 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 9 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2019
  • Turn calming, April 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
67 and 70 and 71 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
56 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,300 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 1927 and 1962.

Since 2014 at least 167 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 47 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and September 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Clarkson Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Clarkson Avenue

  • Loading only 3 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 311566.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 39 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Neoclassical, and mostly built between 1909 and 1914.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. The David Foster Pre-School Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    350 feet
  2. Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    540 feet
  3. Achievement First Voyager Charter School
    1,090 feet
Show all 10
  1. High Definition Kids Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    690 feet
  2. Hawthorne Corners Day Care Center Pre-K
    890 feet
  3. Blue Petals Utmost Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet
  4. Blue Star of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  5. P.S. 092 Adrian Hegeman School
    1,090 feet
  6. My Little Sprouts Child Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet
  7. City-Pro Group, Inc. - Bedford Ave School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Winthrop Playground
    740 feet

Health care

  1. The Monarch at Brooklyn Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethanie SDA French Church House of worship
    230 feet
  2. Church of the Evangel Listed historic place
    820 feet
  3. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    100 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,280 feet
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,220 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Clarkson Avenue.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.