Bedford Avenue & Kings Highway

Bedford Avenue and Kings Highway meet at a four-way crossing in Madison, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 168 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. James Madison High School is 1,270 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kings Hwy/Bedford Av, is 90 feet away for the B7 and B82, and 11 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings.

Safety record
18 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Kings Hwy/Bedford Av · B7, B82
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Kings Highway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/Bedford Av, 90 feet away, for the B7 and B82.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/Bedford Av B7, B82
    90 feet
    B7 B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …
  2. B82 …

Live arrivals

Kings Highway carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 13th Street at Belt Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 168 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 159th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Madison
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,400 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 1930 and 1937.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Kings Highway

  • Doctor plates only 2 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-2PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Smiles Childcare Pre-K
    500 feet
  2. P.S. 197 - the Kings Highway Academy School
    1,220 feet
  3. James Madison High School
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital
    470 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Derech Emunah Viener House of worship
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Domino Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Green Forest Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Kings Highway.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.