Bedford Avenue & Pacific Street

Bedford Avenue and Pacific Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 37 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. South Brooklyn Seventh Day Adventist Church is 160 feet away, and St Bartholemew Episcopal Church is 220 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places and 28 places to eat.

Safety record
20 hurt
37 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
950 feet · 4 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
Bedford Av/Dean St · B49
Within a walk
18 places
11 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Pacific Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 950 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    950 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av C, S
    0.3 miles
    C S
  2. Park Pl S
    0.4 miles
    S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Dean St, 210 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Bedford Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Bergen St 24 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    520 feet
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 37 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35 and 36 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
79 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 110 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of Pacific Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO DEPT OF HOMELESS SERVICES
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY

South side of Pacific Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Crown Heights North Historic District.

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 66 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1889 and 1892.

  1. 23rd Regiment Armory Designated landmark
    300 feet
  2. The Union League Club Designated landmark
    420 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Grant Square Gore.

  1. Ulysses Simpson Grant Statue by William Ordway Partridge, 1896
    420 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 post office

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
    220 feet
  2. Westbrook Memorial Garden
    340 feet
  3. Grant Gore Park
    490 feet
Show all 4
  1. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    420 feet

Houses of worship

  1. South Brooklyn Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    160 feet
  2. St Bartholemew Episcopal Church Landmark · listed historic place
    220 feet
  3. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    510 feet
Show all 7
  1. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    670 feet
  2. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,190 feet
  3. Redemption Church of Christ House of worship
    1,250 feet
  4. Friendship Baptist Church Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 19 Rogers Avenue Older adult center
    440 feet
  2. Breevort Post Office
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 places to eat and 13 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 Pacific 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.