Eastern Parkway & Franklin Avenue

Eastern Parkway and Franklin Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 64 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Kol Israel Congregation is 820 feet away, and Dr. Ronald McNair Park is 1,090 feet away. The nearest subway, Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, is about a minute on foot, for the 2, 3, 4, 5 and S. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, six of them schools, and 45 places to eat.

Safety record
34 hurt
64 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden
100 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, S
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Eastern Pkwy/Franklin Av · B96
Within a walk
14 places
6 schools, 5 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Eastern Parkway & Franklin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, 100 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    100 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. Park Pl S
    0.3 miles
    S
  2. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

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 Eastern Pkwy/Franklin Av, 80 feet away, for the B96.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy/Franklin Av B96
    80 feet
    B96

Next buses at this stop

  1. B96 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 43 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Franklin Ave (NE Corner) 42 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 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 64 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 34 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 11 of those hurt, on foot
  • 8 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2018
  • Turn calming, September 2025

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 (North)
Elevation
135 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 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 1913 and 1925.

Since 2014 at least 77 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 124 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 82 signs on these blocks
  • 20 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2018 and March 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Franklin Avenue (west side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Franklin Avenue (west side).

North side of Eastern Parkway

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 6 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 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Franklin Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 302327, 327552, 334642 and 335300.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. St Francis de Sales-Deaf-Brooklyn School
    950 feet
  2. Chai Tots Preschool of Prospect Heights Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,140 feet
  3. Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment School
    1,140 feet
Show all 7
  1. Brooklyn School for Music & Theatre School
    1,140 feet
  2. International High School at Prospect Heights School
    1,140 feet
  3. The High School for Global Citizenship School
    1,140 feet
  4. P.S. 241 Emma L. Johnston School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Union Street Garden and Community Development Garden
    360 feet
  2. Dr. Ronald McNair Park
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kol Israel Congregation Listed historic place
    820 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 45 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Eastern Parkway or Franklin 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.