Bedford Avenue & St Marks Avenue

Bedford Avenue and St Marks Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Mama Dee's Community Garden is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Park Pl, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and 30 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Park Pl
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · S
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
Bedford Av/Bergen St · B49
Within a walk
26 places
15 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & St Marks Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Park Pl, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Pl S
    0.3 miles
    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

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/Bergen St, 240 feet away, for the B49.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Bergen St B49
    240 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

  • 44 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
    390 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2 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 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 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 September 2025.

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
94 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 1901 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the green ash and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 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 St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-6PM ALL DAYS

South side of St Marks Avenue

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 41 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Queen Anne, and mostly built between 1888 and 1890.

  1. The Union League Club Designated landmark
    570 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
    500 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 2 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
    590 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    1,080 feet
  3. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    1,080 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  2. German School Brooklyn School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    50 feet
  2. Grant Gore Park
    440 feet
  3. Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
    920 feet
Show all 4
  1. Westbrook Memorial Garden
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    510 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    380 feet
  2. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    410 feet
  3. St Bartholemew Episcopal Church Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. South Brooklyn Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 19 Rogers Avenue Older adult center
    690 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,060 feet
  2. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or St Marks Avenue.

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.