Brooklyn Avenue & Crown Street

Brooklyn Avenue and Crown Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Gan Academy is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1928, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
Brooklyn Av/Carroll St · B43
Within a walk
16 places
9 religious buildings, 5 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & Crown Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5
  2. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Carroll St, 220 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Carroll St B43
    220 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kingston Ave & Montgomery St 19 docks in all
    1,130 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 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.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
99 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

North side of Crown Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Crown Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Gan Academy School
    300 feet
  2. St Mark's Day School
    570 feet
  3. P.S. 161 the Crown School
    1,180 feet
Show all 6
  1. Success Academy Charter School - Crown Heights School
    1,180 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ Services Preschool
    1,300 feet
  3. Beth Rivkah High School
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    1,050 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    1,220 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and six 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Crown Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.