Dean Street & Vanderbilt Avenue

Dean Street and Vanderbilt Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Prospect Heights Community Farm is 900 feet away, and Underhill Plaza is 1,250 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about six minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and 53 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Vanderbilt Av/Dean St · B69
Within a walk
24 places
13 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dean Street & Vanderbilt Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clinton-Washington Avs C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Bergen St 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3
  2. 7 Av B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Vanderbilt Av/Dean St, 120 feet away, for the B69.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vanderbilt Av/Dean St B69
    120 feet
    B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 76 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 6 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Vanderbilt Ave 27 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 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.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2019
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
83 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2001 and 2021.

Since 2014 at least 359 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 50 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and September 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, 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
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 7AM-7PM FRIDAY-SUNDAY 11AM-11PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Dean Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MAY-SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 11AM-11PM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 300943 and 335286.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 144 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1873 and 1891.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza

Schools and child care

  1. Aozora Community Foundation Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  2. ABR Prospect Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    940 feet
  3. Luria Academy of Brooklyn School
    950 feet
Show all 7
  1. Public School 9 the Sarah Smith Garnet School
    1,050 feet
  2. P.S. 009 Teunis G. Bergen Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  3. League School - Vanderbilt School
    1,070 feet
  4. P.S. K753 - School for Career Development School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Mark's Avenue / Prospect Heights Community Garden
    520 feet
  2. Prospect Heights Community Farm Garden
    900 feet
  3. Lowry Triangle
    1,170 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Underhill Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Josephs RC Church House of worship
    420 feet
  2. St Luke St Mathew Church Listed historic place
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 53 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dean Street or Vanderbilt 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, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.