Bergen Street & Kingsborough 1st Walk

Bergen Street and Kingsborough 1st Walk meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Kingsborough development. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, Utica Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Utica Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Bergen St/Rochester Av · B15, B65
Within a walk
27 places
9 religious buildings, 5 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bergen Street & Kingsborough 1st Walk Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Utica Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Children's Cathedral” (1996) by Jimmy James Greene at the Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bergen St/Rochester Av, 120 feet away, for the B15 and B65.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St/Rochester Av B15, B65 · Shelter
    120 feet
    B15 B65
    Shelter

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
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Marks Ave & Rochester Ave 20 docks in all
    480 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 52 Rochester Avenue Gas station
    1,190 feet
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2021.

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
71 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,000 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 in 1950.

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

Since 2014 at least 18 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the sweetgum.

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
    570 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 5 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
    190 feet
  2. P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods School
    450 feet
  3. The Brooklyn Green School
    450 feet
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  1. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) School
    1,090 feet
  2. Explore Empower Charter School
    1,090 feet
  3. M.S. K394 School
    1,090 feet
  4. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground
    30 feet
  2. Kingsborough Houses Pacific Playground
    430 feet
  3. Woods Playground
    520 feet
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  1. Garden of Plenty Garden
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Center for Rehabilitation and Residential Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

  1. Berean Baptist Church House of worship
    440 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kingsborough Community Center
    340 feet
  2. Older adult center at 447 Kingsborough 4 Walk Older adult center
    860 feet
  3. Older adult center at Kingsborough Extension Older adult center
    880 feet

Fire and police

  1. 77th Precinct Police station
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bergen Street or Kingsborough 1st 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.