Gates Avenue & Cambridge Place

Gates Avenue and Cambridge Place meet at a four-way crossing in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Clinton Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Mount Zion Christian Mission Church is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
1,110 feet · 4 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
980 feet
Greene Av/Grand Av · B52
Within a walk
22 places
9 religious buildings, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Gates Avenue & Cambridge Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 1,110 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clinton-Washington Avs C
    1,110 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Clinton-Washington Avs G
    0.4 miles
    G
  2. Classon Av G
    0.5 miles
    G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Greene Av/Grand Av, 980 feet away, for the B52.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Greene Av/Grand Av B52
    980 feet
    B52

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 53 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cambridge Pl & Gates Ave 18 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 540 Waverly Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Clinton Hill
Elevation
67 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 17 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 79 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and January 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cambridge Place

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Cambridge Place

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Clinton Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 415 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Italianate, and mostly built between 1866 and 1877.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Schoolhouse Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    500 feet
  2. Eladia's Kids Parent Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet
  3. Starting Point - Bedford Stuyvesant School
    890 feet
Show all 10
  1. P.S. 056 Lewis H. Latimer School
    910 feet
  2. The Urban Assembly Unison School
    910 feet
  3. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    920 feet
  4. Kings Bay YM - YWHA Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    960 feet
  5. Fort Greene Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  6. P.S. 011 Purvis J. Behan School
    1,130 feet
  7. Shining Smiles Daycare I Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hollenback Community Garden
    870 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Jitu Weusi Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    980 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brown Memorial Baptist Church Landmark
    710 feet
  2. Mount Zion Christian Mission Church House of worship
    860 feet
  3. Zion Baptist Church House of worship
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Adlephi Post Office
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,020 feet
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Urban Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cambridge Place or Gates Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.