Carroll Street & Brooklyn Avenue

Carroll Street and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Mark's Day School is 250 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Brooklyn Av/Carroll St · B43
Within a walk
13 places
9 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Carroll Street & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  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. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Carroll St, 130 feet away, for the B43.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Carroll St B43
    130 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kingston Ave & Carroll St 20 docks in all
    800 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
111 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 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 1920 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and May 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

North side of Carroll Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Carroll Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. St Mark's Day School
    250 feet
  2. Gan Academy School
    630 feet
  3. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,260 feet
Show all 4
  1. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    730 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Carroll 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.