McDonald Avenue & Church Avenue

McDonald Avenue and Church Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Kensington, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Little Bangladesh by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 32 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Avenue C Plaza is 830 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about a minute on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
32 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
60 feet · 1 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
McDonald Av/Church Av · B90
Within a walk
11 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 pedestrian plazas and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
McDonald Avenue & Church Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 60 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av F, G
    60 feet
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Ditmas Av F
    0.4 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is McDonald Av/Church Av, 30 feet away, for the B90.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. McDonald Av/Church Av B90
    30 feet
    B90

Next buses at this stop

  1. B90 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Church Avenue.

  • 62 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Church Ave & McDonald Ave 29 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at 11th Avenue & 18th Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 20 Caton Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 5115 15th Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 32 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 8 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2013
  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2017
  • Turn calming, May 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
39
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
56 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Little Bangladesh, a co-naming enacted on August 14, 2022 (Local Law 81 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Little Bangladesh.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 52 signs on these blocks
  • 18 different rules
  • 7 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2021 and September 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on McDonald Avenue (west side).

North side of Church Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Church Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of McDonald Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY US POSTAL SERVICE 8AM-6PM ALL DAYS
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 332997, 332998, 334869 and 338789.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Gan Yisroel School
    1,060 feet
  2. P.S. 230 Doris L. Cohen School
    1,150 feet
  3. Bnos Jerusalem D'Chasidei Belz School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet
Show all 5
  1. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet
  2. Yeshivat Shaare Torah Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Albemarle Playground
    1,130 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Kensington Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    230 feet
  2. Avenue C Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    830 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Flatbush Jewish Center House of worship
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kensington Post Office Listed historic place
    380 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    710 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    790 feet
  3. KRM Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    290 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 31 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Church Avenue or McDonald Avenue.

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