Brooklyn Avenue & Empire Boulevard

Brooklyn Avenue and Empire Boulevard meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Beth Rivkah School is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about seven minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
27 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av · B43
Within a walk
22 places
11 religious buildings, 8 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & Empire Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av, 90 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av B43 · Shelter
    90 feet
    B43
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Empire Boulevard.

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Lefferts Ave 20 docks in all
    610 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    940 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 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.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020
  • Turn calming, January 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35 and 40 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
74 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

North side of Empire Boulevard

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-7PM

South side of Empire Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 8 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Beth Rivkah School
    750 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start School
    750 feet
  3. Gan Academy School
    770 feet
Show all 9
  1. Chabad Girls Academy High School
    1,000 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    1,010 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  4. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell School
    1,070 feet
  5. Bnos Chomesh Academy School
    1,150 feet
  6. St Mark's Day School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marc And Jason's Playground
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth David David Gershon Shul House of worship
    950 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    770 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,170 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Empire Boulevard.

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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.