Myrtle Avenue & Taaffe Place

Myrtle Avenue and Taaffe Place meet at a four-way crossing in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Taaffe Playground is 110 feet away, and Myrtle Avenue Plaza is 1,090 feet away. The nearest subway, Classon Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the G. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them schools, and 20 places to eat. About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
15 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Classon Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Myrtle Av/Classon Av · B54
Within a walk
16 places
6 schools, 3 playgrounds and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Myrtle Avenue & Taaffe Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Classon Av G
    0.4 miles
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Myrtle Av/Classon Av, 170 feet away, for the B54.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Myrtle Av/Classon Av B54
    170 feet
    B54

Next buses at this stop

  1. B54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Emerson Pl & Myrtle Ave 63 docks in all
    670 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 184 Classon Avenue Gas station
    420 feet
  2. 325 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
33
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Clinton Hill
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 52 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2024 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Myrtle Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY US POSTAL SERVICE 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM

South side of Myrtle Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

East side of Taaffe Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 1PM-2:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Taaffe Place

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 1PM-2:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Art Moderne. They were built between 1858 and 1932.

  1. M. H. Renken Dairy Company (Office Building) Designated landmark
    330 feet
  2. M. H. Renken Dairy Company (Engine Room Building) Designated landmark
    350 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden
  • 1 pedestrian plaza

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./I.S. 157 the Benjamin Franklin Health & Science Academy School
    570 feet
  2. Talmud Torah Tashbar School
    670 feet
  3. Talmud Torah Toshbar School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    900 feet
Show all 8
  1. Ohel Elozer School
    1,020 feet
  2. Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (Bcam) School
    1,170 feet
  3. Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service School
    1,170 feet
  4. Yeshiva Nachlas Tzvi D'Krula Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet
  5. Bnos Spinka Boys School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Taaffe Playground
    110 feet
  2. Myrtle Village Green Garden
    370 feet
  3. Pratt Playground
    960 feet
Show all 4
  1. Star Spangled Playground
    990 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Myrtle Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marys Episcopal Church Landmark · listed historic place
    530 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Chestnut Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Myrtle Avenue or Taaffe Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, 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.