Dean Street & Franklin Avenue

Dean Street and Franklin Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 26 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Walt L. Shamel Community Garden is 560 feet away, and Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church is 1,170 feet away. The nearest subway, Park Pl, is about five minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
26 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Park Pl
1,310 feet · 5 min on foot · S
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Dean St/Franklin Av · B49, B65
Within a walk
17 places
12 religious buildings, 1 garden and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dean Street & Franklin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Park Pl, 1,310 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Pl S
    1,310 feet
    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
    0.3 miles
    C S
  2. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.3 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/Franklin Av, 120 feet away, for the B49 and B65.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dean St/Franklin Av B49, B65 · Shelter
    120 feet
    B49 B65
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 61 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Dean St & Franklin Ave 21 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 26 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 6 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2018
  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2024

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
86 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 238 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2021 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dean Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 2 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 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as French Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival, one each. They were built between 1891 and 1895.

  1. 23rd Regiment Armory Designated landmark
    610 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Grant Square Gore.

  1. Ulysses Simpson Grant Statue by William Ordway Partridge, 1896
    810 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
    560 feet
  2. Grant Gore Park
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Nassau Brewery Listed historic place
    360 feet
  2. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    900 feet
  2. South Brooklyn Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,140 feet
  3. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. St Bartholemew Episcopal Church Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 19 Rogers Avenue Older adult center
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    70 feet
  2. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dean Street or Franklin Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.