Bedford Avenue & Prospect Place

Bedford Avenue and Prospect Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church is 710 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 28 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and 35 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Park Pl
1,130 feet · 4 min on foot · S
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Bedford Av/Prospect Pl · B49
Within a walk
28 places
15 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Prospect Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Park Pl, 1,130 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Pl S
    1,130 feet
    S

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

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

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, 110 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & Bedford Ave 25 docks in all
    720 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
    0.3 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 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
99 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 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 18 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 5 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 Prospect Place

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

South side of Prospect Place

  • No parking 7 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
    590 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 college
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    260 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    820 feet
  3. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    820 feet
Show all 8
  1. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    820 feet
  2. German School Brooklyn School
    1,010 feet
  3. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,160 feet
  4. Interfaith Med Ctr School of Nursing College
    1,210 feet
  5. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    340 feet
  2. Grant Gore Park
    770 feet
  3. Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    840 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    710 feet
  2. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    750 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 19 Rogers Avenue Older adult center
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,210 feet
  2. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Prospect 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.