Greene Avenue & Cambridge Place

Greene Avenue and Cambridge Place meet at a three-way junction in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Clinton Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Orthodox Friends Meeting House stands 790 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 17 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
1,060 feet · 4 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Greene Av/Grand Av · B52
Within a walk
17 places
7 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Greene Avenue & Cambridge Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 1,060 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clinton-Washington Avs G
    1,060 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Greene Av/Grand Av, 170 feet away, for the B52.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Washington Ave & Greene Ave 19 docks in all
    660 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 325 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
64 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 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 52 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and August 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cambridge Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Cambridge Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Greene Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Clinton Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 355 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Italianate, and mostly built between 1866 and 1877.

  1. Pratt Institute: Higgins Hall Designated landmark
    370 feet
  2. Orthodox Friends Meeting House Designated landmark
    790 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Kings Bay YM - YWHA Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    400 feet
  2. P.S. 011 Purvis J. Behan School
    1,140 feet
  3. Brooklyn Schoolhouse Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Greene Playground
    620 feet
  2. Underwood Park
    1,140 feet
  3. Hollenback Community Garden
    1,150 feet
Show all 5
  1. Underwood Park Playground
    1,150 feet
  2. Cedar Tree Garden
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Clinton Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    670 feet
  2. Clinton Hill Library Landmark
    920 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Emmanuel Baptist Church Landmark · listed historic place
    910 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    880 feet
  2. Urban Market Supermarket
    950 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Cambridge Place or Greene 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.