Monroe Street & Tompkins Avenue

Monroe Street and Tompkins Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Feeding Tree Garden is 60 feet away, and the 79th Precinct is 1,090 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Tompkins Av/Gates Av, is 190 feet away for the B43, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 28 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
1.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Tompkins Av/Gates Av · B43
Within a walk
27 places
11 religious buildings, 4 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Monroe Street & Tompkins Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Tompkins Av/Gates Av, 190 feet away, for the B43.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tompkins Av/Gates Av B43
    190 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Tompkins Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Monroe St & Tompkins Ave 19 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1381 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.6 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
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 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
55 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1900 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 70 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Monroe Street

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

South side of Monroe Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Tompkins Avenue

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

West side of Tompkins Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 49 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1882 and 1885.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Academy of Arts and Letters School
    360 feet
  2. Cititots Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet
  3. Sunshine Nursery and Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    850 feet
Show all 7
  1. Sunshine Nursery & Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    890 feet
  2. P.S. 044 Marcus Garvey School
    1,010 feet
  3. Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn School
    1,010 feet
  4. Uncommon Collegiate Charter High School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Feeding Tree Garden
    60 feet
  2. Shiloh Garden
    210 feet
  3. Hattie Carthan Playground
    640 feet
Show all 5
  1. First Quincy Street Community Garden
    660 feet
  2. Herbert Von King Park
    1,130 feet

Health care

  1. Concord Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,000 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church Listed historic place
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Pauls Church the Nazarene House of worship
    700 feet
  2. Concord Baptist Church House of worship
    1,160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Police Athletic League Wynn Center Community center
    950 feet

Fire and police

  1. 79th Precinct Police station
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Monroe Street or Tompkins 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.