East New York Avenue & Ford Street

East New York Avenue and Ford Street meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park is 350 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
East New York Av/E 92 St · B12
Within a walk
18 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East New York Avenue & Ford Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.4 miles
    3 4

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Ailanthus” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Sutter Av-Rutland Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is East New York Av/E 92 St, 130 feet away, for the B12.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. East New York Av/E 92 St B12
    130 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East New York Avenue.

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Carroll St & Rochester Ave 21 docks in all
    740 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, February 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
41
Police precinct
67 and 71 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
46 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 20 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and September 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East New York Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

East side of Ford Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of Ford Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    220 feet
  2. Seneca Village Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    400 feet
  3. P.S. 398 Walter Weaver School
    670 feet
Show all 8
  1. P.S. 770 New American Academy School
    670 feet
  2. Kids-Centric, Inc Medgar Evers School
    870 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
  4. P.S. 189 the Bilingual Center School
    1,160 feet
  5. Y & y Home & Health Care MGMT Trade or language school
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    350 feet
  2. Lincoln Terrace Park / Arthur S. Somers Playground
    780 feet
  3. East Flatbush Children's Playground
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Gospel Crusade Church of the Pentecost House of worship
    570 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East New York Avenue or Ford Street.

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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.