Eastern Parkway & Classon Avenue

Eastern Parkway and Classon Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 39 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 4,879 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The urn “Joseph A. Guider” is 500 feet away, and Union Street Garden and Community Development is 700 feet away. The nearest subway, Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, is about three minutes on foot, for the 2, 3, 4 and two more. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
35 hurt
39 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden
730 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, S
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Classon Av/Eastern Pkwy · B48
Within a walk
23 places
8 schools, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Eastern Parkway & Classon Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, 730 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    730 feet
    2 3 4 5 S

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
4 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
Outbound
4 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
Franklin Av
1 line
  1. S …
Prospect Park
1 line
  1. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    840 feet
    2 3
  2. Park Pl S
    0.4 miles
    S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “IL7/Square” (1999) by Millie Burns at the Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Classon Av/Eastern Pkwy, 110 feet away, for the B48.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Classon Av/Eastern Pkwy B48 · Shelter
    110 feet
    B48
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Classon Avenue.

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lincoln Pl & Classon Ave 28 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 39 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 35 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 4,879 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 165th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2,510 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71 and 77 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
146 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1920 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 52 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 141 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 62 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and August 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Eastern Parkway

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Eastern Parkway

  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY SCHOOL FACULTY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1893 and 1915.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Dr. Ronald McNair Park.

  1. Dr. Ronald McNair Bust by Ogundipe Fayomi, 1994
    340 feet
  2. Joseph A. Guider Urn by Romeo Frassanito, 1930
    500 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 8 schools
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 fire station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Chai Tots Preschool of Prospect Heights Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    170 feet
  2. St Francis de Sales-Deaf-Brooklyn School
    390 feet
  3. Bumblebees -R-Us Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    470 feet
Show all 14
  1. Classon Avenue Pre-K
    480 feet
  2. Wurzelkinder Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    620 feet
  3. Prospect Kids Academy #2 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  4. Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment School
    820 feet
  5. Brooklyn School for Music & Theatre School
    820 feet
  6. International High School at Prospect Heights School
    820 feet
  7. The High School for Global Citizenship School
    820 feet
  8. Sunflower Playhouse Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    890 feet
  9. Clara Barton High School
    990 feet
  10. Brooklyn Jesuit Prep School
    1,090 feet
  11. P.S. 241 Emma L. Johnston School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dr. Ronald McNair Park
    120 feet
  2. Union Street Garden and Community Development Garden
    700 feet
  3. Mount Prospect Park
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Museum Landmark · listed historic place
    620 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 280/Ladder 132 Fire station
    1,030 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Classon Avenue or Eastern Parkway.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.