Marcy Avenue & Monroe Street

Marcy Avenue and Monroe Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Police Officer Raymond Harris Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the Bedford Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Pauls Church the Nazarene is 160 feet away. The nearest subway, Bedford-Nostrand Avs, is about ten minutes on foot, for the G. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bedford-Nostrand Avs
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Gates Av/Marcy Av · B52
Within a walk
28 places
14 religious buildings, 4 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Marcy Avenue & Monroe Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bedford-Nostrand Avs, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. Bedford-Nostrand Avs G
    0.5 miles
    G

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gates Av/Marcy Av, 380 feet away, for the B52.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Marcy Av B52 · Shelter
    380 feet
    B52
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Marcy Ave & Gates Ave 21 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 775 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
52 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Police Officer Raymond Harris Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 84 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 87 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Police Officer Raymond Harris Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and August 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Marcy Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Marcy Avenue

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

North side of Monroe Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Monroe Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Bedford Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 192 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1881 and 1885.

  1. Saint George's Protestant Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    220 feet
  2. Boys' High School Designated landmark
    450 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Cititots Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    40 feet
  2. Uncommon Collegiate Charter High School
    460 feet
  3. Brooklyn Academy High School
    660 feet
Show all 6
  1. Uncommon Collegiate CHS School
    660 feet
  2. Academy of Arts and Letters School
    680 feet
  3. Bed Stuy Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    890 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hattie Carthan Playground
    220 feet
  2. Shiloh Garden
    610 feet
  3. Feeding Tree Garden
    730 feet
Show all 5
  1. Stars of Hope Community Garden
    1,120 feet
  2. Herbert Von King Park
    1,130 feet

Health care

  1. Concord Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    480 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Pauls Church the Nazarene House of worship
    160 feet
  2. Concord Baptist Church House of worship
    450 feet
  3. Siloam Presbyterian Church House of worship
    890 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Police Athletic League Wynn Center Community center
    340 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 57/Engine 235 Fire station
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    910 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Marcy Avenue or Monroe Street.

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