Bedford Avenue & Empire Boulevard

Bedford Avenue and Empire Boulevard meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 43 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 575 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about seven minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
34 hurt
43 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Empire Blvd/Bedford Av · B43
Within a walk
11 places
6 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Empire Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.3 miles
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Sterling 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 Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/Bedford Av, 100 feet away, for the B43.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/Bedford Av B43
    100 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue and Empire Boulevard.

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling St & Bedford Ave 19 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 43 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 34 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 13 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2019
  • Turn calming, July 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 575 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,103rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 192 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35 and 40 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
63 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 2,400 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 4 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and August 2026, 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 stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of Empire Boulevard

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Empire Boulevard

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 105 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1906 and 1911.

  1. The Sunday School and Chapel of Grace Reformed Church Designated landmark
    660 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    860 feet
  2. Ebbets Field Middle School
    1,240 feet
  3. P.S. 375 Jackie Robinson School
    1,240 feet
Show all 4
  1. Medgar Evers College
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush Landmark
    750 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    490 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and seven food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Empire Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.