Kent Avenue & Little Nassau Street

Kent Avenue and Little Nassau Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Classon Triangle is 580 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flushing Av/Kent Av, is 330 feet away for the B57, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, nine of them schools, and three places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Flushing Av/Kent Av · B57
Within a walk
22 places
9 schools, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kent Avenue & Little Nassau Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Kent Av, 330 feet away, for the B57.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Kent Av B57
    330 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 711 Kent Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 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.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
33
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,200 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 between 2002 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 80 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2014 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kent Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-6PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-6PM

West side of Kent Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Little Nassau Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Little Nassau Street

  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 9 schools
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Nachlas Tzvi D'Krula Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    350 feet
  2. Bnos Spinka Boys School
    460 feet
  3. Yeshiva Bnos Israel School
    580 feet
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  1. Gan Bnos Yisroel Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    740 feet
  2. School Based Child Care School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    740 feet
  3. Jolly Baby Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    810 feet
  4. P.S./I.S. 157 the Benjamin Franklin Health & Science Academy School
    1,000 feet
  5. Hychel Hatorah School
    1,000 feet
  6. Child care center at 77-87 Wallabout Street School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,010 feet
  7. Cong Yeshuos Moshe of Williamsburg School
    1,120 feet
  8. Darkei Tshivo of Dinov School
    1,120 feet
  9. Talmud Torah Tzemach Tzadik Viznitz School
    1,120 feet
  10. Omni Childhood Center - Heyward School
    1,170 feet
  11. Ach Tov Vchesed School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,240 feet
  12. Talmud Torah Tashbar School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Classon Triangle
    580 feet
  2. Classon Playground
    740 feet
  3. Taaffe Playground
    800 feet
Show all 5
  1. Steuben Playground
    1,040 feet
  2. Penn Triangle Playground
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. One Stop Kosher Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Chestnut Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kent Avenue or Little Nassau Street.

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