Bergen Street & Buffalo Avenue

Bergen Street and Buffalo Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Kingsborough development. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Ralph Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ralph Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Bergen St/Buffalo Av · B15, B65
Within a walk
29 places
12 religious buildings, 4 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bergen Street & Buffalo Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ralph Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Ralph Av 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 Bergen St/Buffalo Av, 130 feet away, for the B15 and B65.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St/Buffalo Av B15, B65
    130 feet
    B15 B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bergen Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Buffalo Ave 21 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 52 Rochester Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    760 feet
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
41
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
83 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, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1926 and 1950.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Kingsborough development.

Since 2014 at least 60 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2023 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Buffalo Avenue

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Vernacular. They were built in 1830.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Weeksville Heritage Center.

  1. Sugar in My Bowl II Sculpture by Chakaia Booker, 2012
    250 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  2. P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods School
    1,080 feet
  3. The Brooklyn Green School
    1,080 feet
Show all 6
  1. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet
  2. NY Center for Child Dev Atlantic Ave School
    1,270 feet
  3. Uncommon Excellence Girls CMS School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground
    520 feet
  2. Kingsborough Houses Pacific Playground
    1,040 feet
  3. Woods Playground
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Tehuti Ma’at Community Garden
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Center for Rehabilitation and Residential Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    640 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Weeksville Heritage Center Historic site · listed historic place
    320 feet
  2. Hunterfly Road Historic District Listed historic place
    370 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Church of Christ House of worship
    900 feet
  2. Berean Baptist Church House of worship
    1,070 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 447 Kingsborough 4 Walk Older adult center
    230 feet
  2. Older adult center at Kingsborough Extension Older adult center
    260 feet
  3. Kingsborough Community Center
    870 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 227 Fire station
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bergen Street, Buffalo Avenue or Kingsborough 4th Walk.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, 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.