Bergen Street & Brooklyn Avenue

Bergen Street and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Crown Heights North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses stands 280 feet away, and Achievement First Charter School 11 is 1,270 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about nine minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, six of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Brooklyn Av/Bergen St · B43
Within a walk
18 places
6 religious buildings, 5 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bergen Street & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston-Throop Avs, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.4 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Bergen St, 120 feet away, for the B43.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Bergen St B43
    120 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bergen Street and Brooklyn Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Dean St 19 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    460 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 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.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
67 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 1900 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bergen Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Bergen Street

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

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

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

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 307 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1890 and 1906.

  1. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Designated landmark
    280 feet
  2. Greater Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Designated landmark
    560 feet
  3. NYC DSS Child Day Care Center Designated landmark
    580 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 289 George V. Brower School
    1,100 feet
  2. Uncommon New York City Charter School #1 School
    1,200 feet
  3. Achievement First Brooklyn High School
    1,270 feet
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  1. Achievement First Charter School 11 School
    1,270 feet
  2. Uncommon Charter High School
    1,270 feet
  3. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    380 feet
  2. Brower Park Playground
    900 feet
  3. St. Andrew's Playground
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice · landmark
    880 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brower Park Library
    520 feet
  2. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    520 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bergen Street or Brooklyn 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.