Bedford Avenue & Montgomery Street

Bedford Avenue and Montgomery Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Medgar Evers College is 430 feet away. The nearest subway, Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, is about nine minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
20 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, S
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Bedford Av/Montgomery St · B49
Within a walk
15 places
8 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Montgomery 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 nine minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  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
    0.5 miles
    2 5
  2. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

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/Montgomery St, 130 feet away, for the B49.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Montgomery St B49 · Shelter
    130 feet
    B49
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

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
91 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 1926 and 1960.

Since 2014 at least 4 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and January 2025, 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 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM

North side of Montgomery Street

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

South side of Montgomery Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Medgar Evers College
    430 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  3. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
Show all 6
  1. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet
  2. Ebbets Field Middle School
    1,120 feet
  3. P.S. 375 Jackie Robinson School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jackie Robinson Playground
    550 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    630 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    380 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,320 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Montgomery 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.