Gates Avenue & St James Place

Gates Avenue and St James Place meet at a four-way crossing in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Clinton Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 011 Purvis J. Behan is 860 feet away, and Gateway Triangle is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
840 feet · 3 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
Fulton St/Washington Av · B25, B26, T440
Within a walk
27 places
9 religious buildings, 7 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Gates Avenue & St James Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 840 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clinton-Washington Avs C
    840 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
    0.3 miles
    G
  2. Lafayette Av C
    0.5 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fulton St/Washington Av, 900 feet away, for the B25, B26 and T440.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fulton St/Washington Av B25, B26, T440
    900 feet
    B25 B26 T440

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …
  2. B26 …
  3. T440 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 69 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

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

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.4 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
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2024.

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
70 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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Gates Avenue

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

East side of St James Place

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

West side of St James Place

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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Clinton Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 446 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Italianate, and mostly built between 1865 and 1878.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 7 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 1 garden
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Eladia's Kids Parent Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    570 feet
  2. Brooklyn Schoolhouse Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    770 feet
  3. P.S. 011 Purvis J. Behan School · landmark
    860 feet
Show all 11
  1. Shining Smiles Daycare I Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,040 feet
  2. Starting Point - Bedford Stuyvesant School
    1,160 feet
  3. P.S. 056 Lewis H. Latimer School
    1,170 feet
  4. The Urban Assembly Unison School
    1,170 feet
  5. Fort Greene Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  6. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
  7. Kings Bay YM - YWHA Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,230 feet
  8. Discovery Pitstop Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hollenback Community Garden
    600 feet
  2. Greene Playground
    1,110 feet
  3. Gateway Triangle
    1,180 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Jitu Weusi Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,150 feet
  2. Gates Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Clinton Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brown Memorial Baptist Church Landmark
    440 feet
  2. Zion Baptist Church House of worship
    930 feet
  3. Mount Zion Christian Mission Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Adlephi Post Office
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    820 feet
  2. Urban Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and nine food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Gates Avenue or St James Place.

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