Montgomery Street & Stoddard Place

Montgomery Street and Stoddard Place meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jackie Robinson Playground is 820 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about eight minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
Bedford Av/Montgomery St · B49
Within a walk
13 places
7 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Montgomery Street & Stoddard Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5
  2. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.5 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Montgomery St, 390 feet away, for the B49.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Montgomery St B49 · Shelter
    390 feet
    B49
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 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
    0.6 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 one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

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
93 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1960.

Since 2014 at least 37 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Montgomery Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Stoddard Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Stoddard Place

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 college

Schools and child care

  1. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    660 feet
  2. Medgar Evers College
    700 feet
  3. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
Show all 4
  1. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jackie Robinson Playground
    820 feet
  2. Dodger Playground
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    890 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    650 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and nine 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Montgomery Street or Stoddard Place.

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.