Dumont Avenue & Crescent Street

Dumont Avenue and Crescent Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Cypress Hills Playground is 590 feet away. The nearest subway, Euclid Av, is about ten minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them religious buildings, and two places to eat. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1965, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
8 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Euclid Av
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
500 feet
Linden Blvd/Crescent St · B13, B15, B20
Within a walk
7 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dumont Avenue & Crescent Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Euclid Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Euclid Av A, C
    0.5 miles
    A C

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Linden Blvd/Crescent St, 500 feet away, for the B13, B15 and B20.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Linden Blvd/Crescent St B13, B15, B20
    500 feet
    B13 B15 B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …
  2. B15 …
  3. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1249 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-City Line
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2015 and November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Crescent Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Crescent Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Dumont Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Dumont Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Scholars Charter School
    610 feet
  2. Colony-South Brooklyn Houses Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Euclid / Pine Street Block Association Garden
    310 feet
  2. Cypress Hills Playground
    590 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Fortunata RC Church House of worship
    300 feet
  2. Greater Bright Light Baptist Church House of worship
    1,100 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 39/Engine 225/Ladder 107 Fire station
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Crescent Street or Dumont Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.