Brooklyn Avenue & Montgomery Street

Brooklyn Avenue and Montgomery Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. It is 900 feet to the 71st Precinct. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Brooklyn Av/Montgomery St · B43
Within a walk
15 places
10 religious buildings, 4 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & Montgomery Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 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
    0.4 miles
    3
  2. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Montgomery St, 120 feet away, for the B43.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kingston Ave & Montgomery St 19 docks in all
    800 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
    1,260 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 nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019
  • Turn calming, September 2025

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
89 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are 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 1921 and 1928.

Trees

Fifteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

North side of Montgomery Street

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

South side of Montgomery Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Gan Academy School
    450 feet
  2. St Mark's Day School
    900 feet
  3. Beth Rivkah School
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start School
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth David David Gershon Shul House of worship
    1,030 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    900 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Montgomery 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.