Myrtle Avenue & Carlton Avenue

Myrtle Avenue and Carlton Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Person Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 30 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 806 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Engine 210 firehouse is 170 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Myrtle Av/Carlton Av, is 40 feet away for the B54. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
30 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Myrtle Av/Carlton Av · B54
Within a walk
26 places
8 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Myrtle Avenue & Carlton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Myrtle Av/Carlton Av, 40 feet away, for the B54.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Myrtle Av/Carlton Av B54 · Shelter
    40 feet
    B54
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Carlton Avenue and Myrtle Avenue.

  • 40 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Adelphi St & Myrtle Ave 28 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 168 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 152 Ashland Place Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 30 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 806 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 895th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 398 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene
Elevation
57 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Person Square, a co-naming enacted on August 29, 1951 (Local Law 104 of 1951).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1939.

Since 2014 at least 21 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Person Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 78 signs on these blocks
  • 21 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and March 2026; 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 8am to 7pm on Myrtle Avenue (south side).

East side of Carlton Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Carlton Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 22 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 9 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

North side of Myrtle Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 310107, 333147 and 336186.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 69 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Italianate, and mostly built between 1863 and 1868.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 park features
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Growth Mindset Learning Lab Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    600 feet
  2. Atlantic Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    720 feet
  3. Fort Greene Preparatory Academy School
    860 feet
Show all 8
  1. Concordia Fort Greene Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    770 feet
  2. P.S. 046 Edward C. Blum School
    860 feet
  3. Child Study Center of New York School
    940 feet
  4. Discovery PitStop 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,040 feet
  5. P.S. 020 Clinton Hill School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Greene Park
    320 feet
  2. Oracle Playground
    500 feet
  3. Fort Greene Visitors Center in Fort Greene Park Park feature · landmark
    630 feet
Show all 5
  1. Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    950 feet
  2. Fort Greene Crypt in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    1,040 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Feuchtwanger Stable Listed historic place
    190 feet
  2. Brooklyn Garden Apartments (Navy Yard) Listed historic place
    610 feet
  3. Lefferts-Laidlaw House Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Institutional Church of God House of worship
    360 feet
  2. Zion Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    730 feet
  3. French Speaking Baptist Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Whitman Community center
    720 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 210 Fire station
    170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    920 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,080 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    180 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    520 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Carlton Avenue or Myrtle Avenue.

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