New York Avenue & Montgomery Street

New York Avenue and Montgomery Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Benjamin Keefe Clark Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Marc And Jason's Playground is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
New York Av/Montgomery St · B44
Within a walk
20 places
8 religious buildings, 6 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & Montgomery Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 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. President St-Medgar Evers College 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, 120 feet away, for the B44.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 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
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.4 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
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

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
88 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Benjamin Keefe Clark Way, a co-naming enacted on September 27, 2002 (Local Law 28 of 2002).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

Twenty trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Benjamin Keefe Clark Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Montgomery Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

South side of Montgomery Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of New York Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 police station
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell School
    740 feet
  2. P.S. 161 the Crown School
    740 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Crown Heights School
    740 feet
Show all 8
  1. Crown Multi-Educ Services Preschool
    850 feet
  2. Beth Rivkah High School
    850 feet
  3. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    870 feet
  4. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
  5. Gan Academy School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marc And Jason's Playground
    750 feet
  2. Dodger Playground
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

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

Community centers and public services

  1. James E Davis Post Office
    1,220 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    390 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine 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 of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Montgomery 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.