Bergen Street & Vanderbilt Avenue

Bergen Street and Vanderbilt Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Prospect Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Luria Academy of Brooklyn is 660 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about seven minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 51 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Vanderbilt Av/Bergen St · B69
Within a walk
18 places
8 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bergen Street & Vanderbilt Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clinton-Washington Avs C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Bergen St 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3
  2. 7 Av B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Vanderbilt Av/Bergen St, 120 feet away, for the B69.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vanderbilt Av/Bergen St B69
    120 feet
    B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Vanderbilt Ave 27 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  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 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 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, March 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
89 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 274 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 51 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and October 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 7AM-7PM FRIDAY-SUNDAY 11AM-11PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MAY-SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 11AM-11PM

West side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 301223 and 335286.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Prospect Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 251 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1877 and 1893.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Aozora Community Foundation Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    520 feet
  2. ABR Prospect Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    650 feet
  3. Luria Academy of Brooklyn School
    660 feet
Show all 6
  1. Public School 9 the Sarah Smith Garnet School
    760 feet
  2. P.S. 009 Teunis G. Bergen Pre-K
    760 feet
  3. Montessori Day School of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Mark's Avenue / Prospect Heights Community Garden
    220 feet
  2. Prospect Heights Community Farm Garden
    610 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
  2. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Josephs RC Church House of worship
    710 feet
  2. St Luke St Mathew Church Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    880 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bergen Street or Vanderbilt 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.