Empire Boulevard & Kingston Avenue

Empire Boulevard and Kingston Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 555 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Hamilton Metz Field is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Empire Blvd/Lamont Ct · B43
Within a walk
12 places
9 religious buildings, 1 field and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Empire Boulevard & Kingston Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/Lamont Ct, 300 feet away, for the B43.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/Lamont Ct B43
    300 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Empire Boulevard.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kingston Ave & Montgomery St 19 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020
  • Turn calming, February 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 555 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,124th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 251 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
73 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1924 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Empire Boulevard

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-7PM

South side of Empire Boulevard

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Kingston Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8:30AM-7PM 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Kingston Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 9AM-7PM 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 335552 and 337597.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 1 field
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Gan Academy School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hamilton Metz Field
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Horeb 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 483 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    1,020 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    540 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Empire Boulevard or Kingston Avenue.

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