Bedford Avenue & President Street

Bedford Avenue and President Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. First Baptist Church Crown Heights is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2, 3, 4, 5 and S. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
22 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden
1,300 feet · 5 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, S
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Bedford Av/President St · B49
Within a walk
12 places
10 religious buildings, 1 college and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & President Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, 1,300 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    1,300 feet
    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
    0.3 miles
    2 5
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

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/President St, 120 feet away, for the B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/President St B49
    120 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Union St & Bedford Ave 24 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 240 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 22 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
126 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 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 1920 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 325 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and June 2023, 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 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM

North side of President Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of President Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  2. Medgar Evers College
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    440 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or President 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.