Dean Street & Classon Avenue

Dean Street and Classon Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 425 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Gotham Professional Arts Academy is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Park Pl, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Park Pl
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · S
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Dean St/Classon Av · B65
Within a walk
12 places
4 religious buildings, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dean Street & Classon Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Pl S
    0.3 miles
    S

Next trains at this station

Franklin Av
1 line
  1. S …
Prospect Park
1 line
  1. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av C, S
    0.4 miles
    C S
  2. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.5 miles
    A C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Units of the Free” (1999) by Isha Shabaka at the Park Pl station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Dean St/Classon Av, 120 feet away, for the B65.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dean St/Classon Av B65
    120 feet
    B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 64 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pacific St & Classon Ave 21 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 540 Waverly Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 425 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,283rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 203 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
95 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 225 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Skyline' thornless honeylocust and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 45 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2021 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Dean Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 4 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Dean Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Arts and Science Elementary School
    730 feet
  2. The Academy for Collaborative Exploration School
    730 feet
  3. Gotham Professional Arts Academy School
    910 feet
Show all 4
  1. Playto Pacific Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,030 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lefferts Place Community Garden
    810 feet
  2. Crispus Attucks Playground
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Downtown Brooklyn Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Nassau Brewery Listed historic place
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    970 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 16 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Classon 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.