Montgomery Street & McKeever Place

Montgomery Street and McKeever Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jackie Robinson Playground is 50 feet away, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, is about seven minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, S
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
Franklin Av/Montgomery St · B48
Within a walk
11 places
5 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Montgomery Street & McKeever Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
4 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
Outbound
4 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
Franklin Av
1 line
  1. S …
Prospect Park
1 line
  1. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.4 miles
    B Q S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “IL7/Square” (1999) by Millie Burns at the Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Franklin Av/Montgomery St, 390 feet away, for the B48.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Franklin Av/Montgomery St B48
    390 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Montgomery St 27 docks in all
    510 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 240 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
95 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 3,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 86 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2023 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of McKeever Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of McKeever Place

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Montgomery Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 botanical garden
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Medgar Evers College
    410 feet
  2. Ebbets Field Middle School
    620 feet
  3. P.S. 375 Jackie Robinson School
    620 feet
Show all 4
  1. Little Angel Day Care #3 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jackie Robinson Playground
    50 feet
  2. Brooklyn Botanic Garden Botanical garden
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    1,140 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    810 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    1,160 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along McKeever Place or Montgomery 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.