Dean Street & New York Avenue

Dean Street and New York 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, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. First Church of Christ, Scientist stands 110 feet away, and P.S. 093 William H. Prescott is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Dean St/New York Av · B65
Within a walk
12 places
6 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dean Street & New York Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Bus

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

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dean St/New York Av B65
    110 feet
    B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Dean Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. New York Ave & St Marks Ave 23 docks in all
    590 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.2 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
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, August 2020

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
70 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1928.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2018 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dean Street

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

South side of Dean Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of New York Avenue

  • Ambulances and ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULANCE AMBULETTE ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of New York Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 232 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1886 and 1899.

  1. First Church of Christ, Scientist Designated landmark
    110 feet
  2. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    120 feet
  3. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church School Designated landmark
    210 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 093 William H. Prescott School
    910 feet
  2. Restoration Academy School
    910 feet
  3. Cm'S First Step Training Ctr Trade or language school
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 1100 Bergen Street Community Garden
    780 feet

Health care

  1. Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church Landmark
    770 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and six food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dean Street or New York 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.