Gates Avenue & Vanderbilt Avenue

Gates Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Gateway Triangle is 50 feet away, and Brooklyn Bears/Carlton Avenue Garden is 1,170 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
480 feet · 2 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Vanderbilt Av/Fulton St · B69
Within a walk
23 places
6 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Gates Avenue & Vanderbilt Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 480 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Lafayette Av C
    0.3 miles
    C
  2. Clinton-Washington Avs G
    0.3 miles
    G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Vanderbilt Av/Fulton St, 40 feet away, for the B69.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vanderbilt Av/Fulton St B69
    40 feet
    B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Vanderbilt Avenue.

  • 61 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fulton St & Clermont Ave 75 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 510 Waverly Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1,250 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, February 2020
  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2021

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
80 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes

Homes

About 3,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 222 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and October 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Vanderbilt Avenue

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 194 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1863 and 1878.

  1. Royal Castle Apartments Designated landmark
    200 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Discovery Pitstop Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    140 feet
  2. L & L Studio Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    290 feet
  3. League School - Vanderbilt School
    710 feet
Show all 11
  1. Shining Smiles Daycare I Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    740 feet
  2. Aozora Community Foundation Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet
  3. P.S. K753 - School for Career Development School
    950 feet
  4. Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
    1,020 feet
  5. P.S. 011 Purvis J. Behan School · landmark
    1,070 feet
  6. Eladia's Kids Parent Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet
  7. Achievement First Endeavor Charter School
    1,150 feet
  8. Npower New York Trade or language school
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gateway Triangle
    50 feet
  2. Hollenback Community Garden
    870 feet
  3. Cuyler Gore Park
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn Bears/Carlton Avenue Garden
    1,170 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Gates Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    90 feet

Health care

  1. New Carlton Rehab and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Luke St Mathew Church Landmark · listed historic place
    590 feet
  2. Brown Memorial Baptist Church Landmark
    710 feet
  3. Zion Baptist Church House of worship
    1,280 feet
Show all 4
  1. Cadman Memorial Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Urban Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Gates Avenue or Vanderbilt 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.