New York Avenue & Crown Street

New York Avenue and Crown Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 161 the Crown is 420 feet away. The nearest subway, President St-Medgar Evers College, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
President St-Medgar Evers College
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
New York Av/Montgomery St · B44
Within a walk
21 places
9 religious buildings, 8 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & Crown Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is President St-Medgar Evers College, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Montgomery St, 220 feet away, for the B44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Montgomery St B44
    220 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 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 December 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
102 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1922 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 21 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Crown Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Crown Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY SCHOOL FACULTY SCHOOL DAYS 6AM-4PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 8 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 161 the Crown School
    420 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Crown Heights School
    420 feet
  3. Crown Multi-Educ Services Preschool
    530 feet
Show all 9
  1. Beth Rivkah High School
    530 feet
  2. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell School
    1,070 feet
  3. Gan Academy School
    1,070 feet
  4. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    1,150 feet
  5. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    1,190 feet
  6. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marc And Jason's Playground
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

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

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    710 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and five 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Crown 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.