Brooklyn Avenue & Eastern Parkway

Brooklyn Avenue and Eastern Parkway meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 67 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 2,025 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, 18 of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
41 hurt
67 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
740 feet · 3 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Brooklyn Av/Eastern Pkwy · B43
Within a walk
27 places
18 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & Eastern Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 740 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    740 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3
  2. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Eastern Pkwy, 110 feet away, for the B43.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Eastern Pkwy B43
    110 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Brooklyn Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Brooklyn Ave 21 docks in all
    100 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 67 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 41 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 9 of those hurt, on foot
  • 7 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, September 2022
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2,025 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 417th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,005 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71 and 77 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
96 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to five travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1906 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 111 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 73 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and December 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Eastern Parkway

  • Ambulances only 2 signs AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING 7AM-6PM EXCEPT SATURDAY
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Eastern Parkway

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 191 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1906 and 1910.

  1. St. Gregory the Great School Designated landmark
    800 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 18 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 museum

Schools and child care

  1. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    290 feet
  2. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    290 feet
  3. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Eastern Parkway School
    420 feet
Show all 7
  1. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    630 feet
  2. St Mark's Day School
    850 feet
  3. Arista Prep School
    1,150 feet
  4. Chabad Girls Academy School
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    550 feet
  2. Jewish Children's Museum
    900 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    310 feet
  2. Chabad Lubavitch World HQ House of worship
    760 feet
  3. St Gregory the Great RC Church Landmark
    840 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    980 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Eastern Parkway.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.