Bedford Avenue & Sullivan Place

Bedford Avenue and Sullivan Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 375 Jackie Robinson School is 950 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about eight minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
Empire Blvd/Bedford Av · B43
Within a walk
14 places
8 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Sullivan Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.4 miles
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/Bedford Av, 390 feet away, for the B43.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/Bedford Av B43
    390 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Montgomery St 27 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 240 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    1,230 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

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
72 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1925 and 1960.

Since 2014 at least 4 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Skyline' thornless honeylocust.

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 June 2016 and May 2026, 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 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of Sullivan Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sullivan Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 37 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1909 and 1911.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 playground
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Ebbets Field Middle School
    950 feet
  2. P.S. 375 Jackie Robinson School
    950 feet
  3. Medgar Evers College
    960 feet
Show all 4
  1. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jackie Robinson Playground
    1,050 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush House of worship
    1,040 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    1,160 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and seven food stores.

Nearby corners

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

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