Dean Street & Kingston Avenue

Dean Street and Kingston Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North III Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Achievement First Brooklyn High School is 650 feet away, and Brower Park Playground is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about five minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them schools, and five places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
1,200 feet · 5 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Dean St/Kingston Av · B65
Within a walk
16 places
7 schools, 3 playgrounds and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dean Street & Kingston Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston-Throop Avs, 1,200 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    1,200 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

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

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Kingston Ave 22 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  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 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
71 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1898 and 1914.

Since 2014 at least 7 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dean Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Dean Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Kingston Avenue

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

West side of Kingston Avenue

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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Crown Heights North III Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 378 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1890 and 1903.

  1. Greater Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Designated landmark
    550 feet
  2. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Designated landmark
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon New York City Charter School #1 School
    510 feet
  2. Achievement First Brooklyn High School
    650 feet
  3. Achievement First Charter School 11 School
    650 feet
Show all 8
  1. Uncommon Charter High School
    650 feet
  2. Academy for Health Careers School
    770 feet
  3. Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-Tech) School
    770 feet
  4. P.S. 289 George V. Brower School
    980 feet
  5. Little Me Daycare Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Andrew's Playground
    650 feet
  2. St. Mark's Playground
    960 feet
  3. Brower Park
    980 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brower Park Playground
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dean Street or Kingston 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.