Dean Street & Brooklyn Avenue

Dean Street and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Crown Heights North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 479 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. NYC DSS Child Day Care Center stands 590 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about eight minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, five of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Dean St/Brooklyn Av · B65
Within a walk
15 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dean Street & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston-Throop Avs, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.4 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Dean St/Brooklyn Av, 110 feet away, for the B65.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dean St/Brooklyn Av B65
    110 feet
    B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Brooklyn Avenue and Dean Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Dean St 19 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    740 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 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.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019
  • Turn calming, July 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 479 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,212th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 233 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
64 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Dean Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Dean Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 279 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1889 and 1905.

  1. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Designated landmark
    450 feet
  2. NYC DSS Child Day Care Center Designated landmark
    590 feet
  3. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 library
  • 1 museum
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon New York City Charter School #1 School
    920 feet
  2. Achievement First Brooklyn High School
    990 feet
  3. Achievement First Charter School 11 School
    990 feet
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  1. Uncommon Charter High School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    660 feet
  2. St. Andrew's Playground
    910 feet
  3. Brower Park Playground
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,170 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brower Park Library
    810 feet
  2. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Dean Street.

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