Bergen Street & Grand Avenue

Bergen Street and Grand Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Epiphany RC Church is 920 feet away, and Brooklyn's Finest Garden is 1,270 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 31 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Bergen St/Grand Av · B65
Within a walk
19 places
10 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bergen Street & Grand Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clinton-Washington Avs C
    0.4 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Park Pl S
    0.4 miles
    S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bergen St/Grand Av, 40 feet away, for the B65.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St/Grand Av B65
    40 feet
    B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bergen Street.

  • 36 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grand Ave & Bergen St 25 docks in all
    70 feet

By car

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

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1,070 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
105 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 118 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

South side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Grand Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Grand Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Gotham Professional Arts Academy School
    280 feet
  2. Playto Pacific Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    730 feet
  3. Sunny Skies Prospect Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
Show all 7
  1. Brooklyn Arts and Science Elementary School
    1,120 feet
  2. The Academy for Collaborative Exploration School
    1,120 feet
  3. P.S. 009 Teunis G. Bergen Pre-K
    1,180 feet
  4. Public School 9 the Sarah Smith Garnet School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lowry Triangle
    1,220 feet
  2. Brooklyn's Finest Garden
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Epiphany RC Church House of worship
    920 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bergen Street or Grand Avenue.

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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.