Crescent Street & Adler Place

Crescent Street and Adler Place meet at a three-way junction in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Highland Park Community School is 1,190 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about two minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them schools, and 21 places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
540 feet · 2 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Crescent St/Ridgewood Av · B13
Within a walk
9 places
5 schools, 3 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Crescent Street & Adler Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crescent St, 540 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    540 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Cypress Hills J
    0.4 miles
    J
  2. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wheel of Bloom-Soak up the Sun” (2007) by Jung Hyang Kim at the Crescent St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Crescent St/Ridgewood Av, 110 feet away, for the B13.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Crescent St/Ridgewood Av B13
    110 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 46 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 794 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
42 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Shumard's oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and June 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Adler Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Adler Place

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

East side of Crescent Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 17 School
    830 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 18 School
    830 feet
  3. Cypress Hills Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    900 feet
Show all 6
  1. Highland Park Community School
    1,190 feet
  2. I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln School
    1,190 feet
  3. Blessed Sacrament Catholic Academy School
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Blessed Sacrament Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    480 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    260 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Golden Farms Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,270 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 19 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Adler Place or Crescent Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.