Brooklyn Avenue & St Johns Place

Brooklyn Avenue and St Johns Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Carlos Lezama Way by local law. It lies inside the Crown Heights North III Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 33 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Gregory the Great RC Church is 200 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places and ten places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
33 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Brooklyn Av · B45
Within a walk
17 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & St Johns Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/Brooklyn Av, 50 feet away, for the B45.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/Brooklyn Av B45
    50 feet
    B45

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Brooklyn Avenue and St Johns Place.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Johns Pl & Kingston Ave 22 docks in all
    740 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 33 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 7 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2024
  • Turn calming, April 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
86 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Carlos Lezama Way, a co-naming enacted on October 10, 2008 (Local Law 48 of 2008).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1907 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 48 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Carlos Lezama Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North III Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 354 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1903 and 1909.

  1. St. Gregory the Great School Designated landmark
    220 feet
  2. St. Gregory the Great Rectory Designated landmark
    280 feet
  3. Brooklyn M.E. Church Home for the Aged and the Infirm Designated landmark
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Eastern Parkway School
    720 feet
  2. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    930 feet
  3. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    940 feet
Show all 7
  1. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    940 feet
  2. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  3. Arista Prep School
    1,150 feet
  4. Arista Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    710 feet
  2. Brower Park Playground
    1,040 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    900 feet
  2. Brower Park Library
    1,300 feet
  3. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gregory the Great RC Church Landmark
    200 feet
  2. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    950 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 230 Kingston Avenue Older adult center
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    330 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and three 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 St Johns Place.

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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.