Clove Road & Malbone Street

Clove Road and Malbone Street meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell is 370 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat. About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
860 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
Empire Blvd/New York Av · B43
Within a walk
17 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Clove Road & Malbone Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 860 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/New York Av, 370 feet away, for the B43.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/New York Av B43
    370 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Empire Blvd & New York Ave 23 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    490 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

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2020.

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
75 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 33 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Clove Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Malbone Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Malbone Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Fourteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1908 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 police station
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell School
    370 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    930 feet
  3. Crown Multi-Educ Services Preschool
    1,200 feet
Show all 6
  1. Beth Rivkah High School
    1,200 feet
  2. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    1,240 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marc And Jason's Playground
    310 feet
  2. Dodger Playground
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth David David Gershon Shul House of worship
    310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. James E Davis Post Office
    810 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    510 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    690 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Clove Road or Malbone Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, 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 Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.