Dean Street & Washington Avenue

Dean Street and Washington Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The corner is also named James Caldwell Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Lowry Triangle is 420 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about five minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and 35 places to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
14 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
1,320 feet · 5 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Washington Av/Dean St · B45
Within a walk
21 places
13 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dean Street & Washington Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 1,320 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Clinton-Washington Avs C
    1,320 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Washington Av/Dean St, 50 feet away, for the B45.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Washington Av/Dean St B45
    50 feet
    B45

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Underhill Ave & Pacific St 27 docks in all
    520 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    910 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2022

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)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
99 feet above sea level

This corner is also named James Caldwell Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2024 (Local Law 41 of 2024).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 124 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on James Caldwell Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dean Street

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

South side of Dean Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Washington Avenue

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

West side of Washington Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Lowry Triangle.

  1. Reverend Benjamin J. Lowry Bust by Robert W. Pugh, 1982
    530 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Gotham Professional Arts Academy School
    740 feet
  2. P.S. 009 Teunis G. Bergen Pre-K
    850 feet
  3. Public School 9 the Sarah Smith Garnet School
    850 feet
Show all 5
  1. Playto Pacific Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,050 feet
  2. Sunny Skies Prospect Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lowry Triangle
    420 feet
  2. James Forten Playground
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Underhill Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    540 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Josephs RC Church House of worship
    780 feet
  2. Epiphany RC Church House of worship
    820 feet
  3. Zion Baptist Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dean Street or Washington 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.