Bedford Avenue & Park Place

Bedford Avenue and Park Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Mama Dee's Community Garden is 670 feet away, and Grant Gore is 1,100 feet away. The nearest subway, Park Pl, is about four minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, 16 of them religious buildings, and 41 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Park Pl
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · S
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Bedford Av/Prospect Pl · B49
Within a walk
27 places
16 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Park Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Park Pl, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Pl S
    1,150 feet
    S

Next trains at this station

Franklin Av
1 line
  1. S …
Prospect Park
1 line
  1. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 S
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Units of the Free” (1999) by Isha Shabaka at the Park Pl station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Prospect Pl, 250 feet away, for the B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Prospect Pl B49
    250 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & Bedford Ave 25 docks in all
    390 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 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
105 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1906 and 1935.

Since 2014 at least 46 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and October 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Park Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Park Place

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 14 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Queen Anne. They were mostly built between 1889 and 1890.

  1. Studebaker Building Designated landmark
    270 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 16 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    590 feet
  2. German School Brooklyn School
    710 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    890 feet
Show all 8
  1. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    890 feet
  2. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    890 feet
  3. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    900 feet
  4. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet
  5. Park Place DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    670 feet
  2. Grant Gore Park
    1,100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
  2. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 41 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Park Place.

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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.