Bergen Street & Classon Avenue

Bergen Street and Classon Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 487 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Brooklyn Arts and Science Elementary School is 440 feet away, and Downtown Brooklyn Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is 980 feet away. The nearest subway, Park Pl, is about five minutes on foot, for the S. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Park Pl
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · S
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Bergen St/Classon Av · B65
Within a walk
12 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bergen Street & Classon 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 five minutes on foot.

  • 2 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. Franklin Av C, S
    0.5 miles
    C 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 Bergen St/Classon Av, 120 feet away, for the B65.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St/Classon Av B65
    120 feet
    B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Classon Ave & St Marks Ave 27 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 16 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
  • 5 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, July 2016
  • Turn calming, July 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 487 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,202nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 230 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
102 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 180 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2021 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

South side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Arts and Science Elementary School
    440 feet
  2. The Academy for Collaborative Exploration School
    440 feet
  3. Gotham Professional Arts Academy School
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 316 Elijah Stroud School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lefferts Place Community Garden
    1,100 feet

Health care

  1. Downtown Brooklyn Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    980 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Nassau Brewery Listed historic place
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    790 feet
  2. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bergen Street or Classon Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.