New York Avenue & Carroll Street

New York Avenue and Carroll Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Beth Rivkah High School is 850 feet away, and the 71st Precinct is 1,040 feet away. The nearest subway, President St-Medgar Evers College, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
President St-Medgar Evers College
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
New York Av/Carroll St · B44, B96
Within a walk
17 places
7 religious buildings, 6 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & Carroll Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is President St-Medgar Evers College, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    1,080 feet
    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. Nostrand Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3
  2. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Carroll St, 130 feet away, for the B44 and B96.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Carroll St B44, B96
    130 feet
    B44 B96

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. B96 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. New York Ave & Montgomery St 20 docks in all
    720 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 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
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
111 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1912 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2014 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Carroll Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Carroll Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 161 the Crown School
    740 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Crown Heights School
    740 feet
  3. Crown Multi-Educ Services Preschool
    850 feet
Show all 8
  1. Beth Rivkah High School
    850 feet
  2. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
  3. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    920 feet
  4. St Mark's Day School
    1,020 feet
  5. Ella Baker / Charles Romain Child Development Center of Medgar Evers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth David David Gershon Shul House of worship
    910 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    1,040 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Carroll Street or New York Avenue.

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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.