New York Avenue & President Street

New York Avenue and President Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Mark's Day School is 970 feet away, and Beth David David Gershon Shul is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, President St-Medgar Evers College, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them schools, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
President St-Medgar Evers College
750 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
New York Av/Carroll St · B44, B96
Within a walk
18 places
7 schools, 6 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & President Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is President St-Medgar Evers College, 750 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    750 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
    1,300 feet
    3
  2. Kingston Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Carroll St, 220 feet away, for the B44 and B96.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. B96 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. President St & Nostrand Ave 28 docks in all
    740 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
    0.5 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
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported nine 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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

  • One travel lane
  • 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 1909 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and May 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of New York Avenue

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

West side of New York Avenue

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

North side of President Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of President Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Chateauesque and Renaissance Revival, one each, and built between 1899 and 1909.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    580 feet
  2. St Mark's Day School
    970 feet
  3. P.S. 161 the Crown School
    1,070 feet
Show all 10
  1. Success Academy Charter School - Crown Heights School
    1,070 feet
  2. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet
  3. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    1,140 feet
  4. Crown Multi-Educ Services Preschool
    1,180 feet
  5. Beth Rivkah High School
    1,180 feet
  6. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    1,250 feet
  7. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Eastern Parkway School
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Philadelphia Sabbath Cathedral Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
  2. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    1,170 feet
  3. Beth David David Gershon Shul House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along New York Avenue or President Street.

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