Bergen Street & New York Avenue

Bergen Street and New York Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Reggie “Combat Jack” Ossé Place by local law. It lies inside the Crown Heights North II Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage stands 70 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the A and C.

Safety record
15 hurt
27 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
New York Av/Bergen St · B44
Within a walk
14 places
6 religious buildings, 2 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bergen Street & New York Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Nostrand 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 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Bergen St, 50 feet away, for the B44.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Bergen St B44
    50 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bergen Street.

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. New York Ave & St Marks Ave 23 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 27 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
75 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Reggie “Combat Jack” Ossé Place, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,100 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 1928.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Reggie “Combat Jack” Ossé Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2018 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 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Bergen Street

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

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North II Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 309 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1887 and 1906.

  1. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    70 feet
  2. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church School Designated landmark
    120 feet
  3. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    190 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 093 William H. Prescott School
    1,190 feet
  2. Restoration Academy School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 1100 Bergen Street Community Garden
    660 feet
  2. Brower Park
    1,150 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District Listed historic place
    730 feet
  2. Brower Park Library
    1,290 feet
  3. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church House of worship
    910 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,220 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and six 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 New York 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, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.