Dekalb Avenue & South Portland Avenue

Dekalb Avenue and South Portland Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Fort Greene Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fort Greene Park is 40 feet away, and Edmonds Playground is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, Fulton St, is about three minutes on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them playgrounds, and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fulton St
880 feet · 3 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
De Kalb Av/South Portland Av · B38
Within a walk
15 places
3 playgrounds, 2 listed historic places and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dekalb Avenue & South Portland Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fulton St, 880 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fulton St G
    880 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Lafayette Av C
    1,180 feet
    C
  2. DeKalb Av B, Q, R
    0.3 miles
    B Q R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is De Kalb Av/South Portland Av, 50 feet away, for the B38.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. De Kalb Av/South Portland Av B38
    50 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Dekalb Avenue.

  • 25 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. DeKalb Ave & S Portland Ave 23 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 152 Ashland Place Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2016
  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019
  • Turn calming, December 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene
Elevation
53 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 103 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

South side of Dekalb Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of South Portland Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of South Portland Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Fort Greene Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 272 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Italianate, and mostly built between 1861 and 1871.

  1. Prison Ship Martyrs Monument (Fort Greene Park) Designated landmark
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 1 college
  • 1 garden
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Technical High School
    690 feet
  2. Brooklyn Hospital-Caledonia Hospital College
    970 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Greene Park
    40 feet
  2. Greene Garden
    40 feet
  3. Fort Greene Park Playground
    480 feet
Show all 7
  1. Edmonds Playground
    880 feet
  2. Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    900 feet
  3. Fowler Square
    1,240 feet
  4. Albert L. Parham Playground
    1,240 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Fowler Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,240 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Hospital Center - Downtown Campus Hospital
    970 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fort Greene Historic District Listed historic place
    630 feet
  2. Fort Greene Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    860 feet
  3. General Edward Big Ned Fowler Monument Monument or memorial
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Lidl Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles
  2. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dekalb Avenue or South Portland 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.