Bedford Avenue & Crown Street

Bedford Avenue and Crown Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, is about seven 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 12 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, S
Nearest bus stop
250 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 & Crown Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.4 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
    0.4 miles
    2 5
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.5 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, 250 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

  • 21 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
    330 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
    0.4 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 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 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
  • Turn calming, May 2022

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
103 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 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 1925 and 1960.

Since 2014 at least 78 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the honeylocust and the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-10AM ALL DAYS

North side of Crown Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Crown Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 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. Medgar Evers College
    440 feet
  2. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  3. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    950 feet
Show all 4
  1. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jackie Robinson Playground
    890 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    300 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    720 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and ten 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 Crown 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.