Marcy Avenue & Martin Luther King Jr Place

Marcy Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr Place meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Marcy development. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Stockton Playground is 120 feet away, and Red Gate Garden is 1,130 feet away. The nearest subway, Myrtle-Willoughby Avs, is about two minutes on foot, for the G. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, seven of them day care or pre-K sites, and four places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Myrtle-Willoughby Avs
570 feet · 2 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
Myrtle Av/Marcy Av · B54
Within a walk
25 places
7 day care or pre-K sites, 7 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Marcy Avenue & Martin Luther King Jr Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Myrtle-Willoughby Avs, 570 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. Myrtle-Willoughby Avs G
    570 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Flushing Av G
    1,040 feet
    G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Myrtle Av/Marcy Av, 560 feet away, for the B54.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Myrtle Av/Marcy Av B54
    560 feet
    B54

Next buses at this stop

  1. B54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Park Ave & Marcy Ave 23 docks in all
    520 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 212 Harrison Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 28-17 42nd Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    990 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Marcy development.

Since 2014 at least 58 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 7 day care or pre-K sites
  • 7 schools
  • 3 community centers
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Williamsburg Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    460 feet
  2. P.S. 297 Abraham Stockton School
    640 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter-Myrtle Ave Middle School
    640 feet
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  1. Central UTA - Marcy School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    670 feet
  2. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    670 feet
  3. Bais Ruchel D'Satmar - Marcy School
    680 feet
  4. P.S. 368 School
    750 feet
  5. Success Academy Charter School - Bed Stuy 1 School
    750 feet
  6. Sunny Tots Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  7. United Academy Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    940 feet
  8. kiddieland center Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    940 feet
  9. Tompkins Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet
  10. Brooklyn Charter School
    1,310 feet
  11. P.S. 023 Carter G. Woodson School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Stockton Playground
    120 feet
  2. Marcy Playground
    390 feet
  3. Red Gate Garden
    1,130 feet
Show all 4
  1. Vernon Cases Community Garden
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Free Gift Baptist Church House of worship
    980 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Marcy Community Center
    660 feet
  2. Community center at Marcy Community center
    800 feet
  3. Tompkins Community Center
    1,130 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 230 Fire station
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Chestnut Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Marcy Avenue or Martin Luther King Jr Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.