Empire Boulevard & Balfour Place

Empire Boulevard and Balfour Place meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about seven minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and five places to eat. About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1924 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av · B43
Within a walk
18 places
8 religious buildings, 7 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Empire Boulevard & Balfour Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av, 60 feet away, for the B43.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av B43
    60 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Empire Boulevard.

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Lefferts Ave 20 docks in all
    730 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    1,100 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35 and 40 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
72 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1924 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and February 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Balfour Place

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

West side of Balfour Place

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

South side of Empire Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Beth Rivkah School
    880 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start School
    880 feet
  3. Gan Academy School
    930 feet
Show all 8
  1. Chabad Girls Academy High School
    1,140 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet
  3. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    1,170 feet
  4. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell School
    1,220 feet
  5. Bnos Chomesh Academy School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marc And Jason's Playground
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth David David Gershon Shul House of worship
    1,110 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    940 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,010 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and ten 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 of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Balfour Place or Empire Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.