Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Atlantic Avenue

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Atlantic Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 99 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Bridge Park is 330 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Atlantic Av, is 110 feet away for the B61, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 21 places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
39 hurt
99 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
80 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Columbia St/Atlantic Av · B61
Within a walk
17 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Atlantic Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Atlantic Av, 110 feet away, for the B61.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Atlantic Av B61
    110 feet
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Atlantic Ave & Furman St 55 docks in all
    260 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 80 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 99 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 39 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11201
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
76 and 84 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brooklyn Heights

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 111 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 186 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1846 and 1887.

  1. 1st Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    560 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
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 1 dog run
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. MS Lam Montessori School
    520 feet
  2. Kinder Prep Childcare 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    570 feet
  3. Long Island Coll Hosp Sch of Nrsing College
    710 feet
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  1. Kinder Prep Childcare and Enrichment Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    910 feet
  2. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
  3. Brooklyn Preschool of Science Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Van Voorhees Playground
    50 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Park
    50 feet
  3. Adam Yauch Park Playground
    200 feet
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  1. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run
    300 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    330 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park Zone 6 Playground
    500 feet
  4. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    1,240 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospital - Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center Hospital
    710 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 224 Fire station
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other places

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Ferry Landing
    790 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

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