Kent Avenue & Keap Street

Kent Avenue and Keap Street meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Yeshiva Beth Hillel of Williamsburg is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kent Av/Hooper St, is 190 feet away for the B62, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them religious buildings. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1975, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Kent Av/Hooper St · B62
Within a walk
12 places
4 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kent Avenue & Keap Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kent Av/Hooper St, 190 feet away, for the B62.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kent Av/Hooper St B62
    190 feet
    B62

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wallabout St & Kent Ave 23 docks in all
    1,300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 687 Kent Avenue Gas station
    990 feet
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 260 South 4th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11249
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
88 and 90 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

Homes

About 900 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 in 1975.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Keap Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Keap Street

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

East side of Kent Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Beth Hillel of Williamsburg School
    620 feet
  2. Beth Rachel School-Girls-720 School
    690 feet
  3. United Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bais Ruchel D'Satmar - Boys School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Classon Playground
    730 feet
  2. Classon Triangle
    1,130 feet
  3. Penn Triangle Playground
    1,130 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 211/Ladder 119 Fire station
    620 feet

Supermarkets

  1. One Stop Kosher Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Keap Street or Kent 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.