Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & St Edwards Street

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and St Edwards Street meet at a four-way crossing in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Ingersoll development. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Commodore Barry Park Wading Pool is 490 feet away, and Golconda Playground is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, DeKalb Av, is about ten minutes on foot, for the B, Q and R. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them schools, and three places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
DeKalb Av
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · B, Q, R
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Park Av/Navy St · B62
Within a walk
17 places
5 schools, 3 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & St Edwards Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is DeKalb Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. DeKalb Av B, Q, R
    0.5 miles
    B Q R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. R …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. R …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Masstransiscope” (1980) by Bill Brand and “DeKalb Improvisation” (2005) by Stephen Johnson at the DeKalb Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Park Av/Navy St, 440 feet away, for the B62.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Av/Navy St B62
    440 feet
    B62

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Park Ave & St Edwards St 53 docks in all
    190 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 690 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 152 Ashland Place Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1939 and 1942.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Ingersoll development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Commodore Barry Park.

  1. Commodore John Barry Stele, 1996
    540 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 swimming pools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Community Roots Charter School
    500 feet
  2. P.S. 067 Charles A. Dorsey School
    500 feet
  3. Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts School
    870 feet
Show all 5
  1. Community Roots Charter Middle School
    1,200 feet
  2. P.S. 287 Bailey K. Ashford School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Commodore Barry Park
    100 feet
  2. Arbor Place Park
    600 feet
  3. Oxport Playground
    940 feet
Show all 6
  1. Commodore Barry Park Playground
    1,050 feet
  2. Fort Greene Park
    1,150 feet
  3. Golconda Playground
    1,240 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 31 Ambulance station
    970 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Walt Whitman Library
    770 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Commodore Barry Park Wading Pool Swimming pool
    490 feet
  2. Commodore Barry Pool Swimming pool
    560 feet
  3. Older adult center at 105 North Portland Avenue Older adult center
    1,250 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #3 Satellite Police station
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gold Organic Farm Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. NYC Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or St Edwards Street.

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