New York Avenue & St Johns Place

New York Avenue and St Johns Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Crown Heights North II Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St. Gregory the Great School stands 610 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Saint Johns Pl/New York Av · B45
Within a walk
11 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & St Johns Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5
  2. Kingston Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/New York Av, 40 feet away, for the B45.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/New York Av B45 · Shelter
    40 feet
    B45
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Johns Place.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & New York Ave 25 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 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, July 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
96 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1909.

Since 2014 at least 48 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North II Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 465 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1897 and 1906.

  1. Brooklyn M.E. Church Home for the Aged and the Infirm Designated landmark
    540 feet
  2. St. Gregory the Great School Designated landmark
    610 feet
  3. St. Gregory the Great Rectory Designated landmark
    740 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Eastern Parkway School
    1,000 feet
  2. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  3. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet
Show all 5
  1. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    1,130 feet
  2. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    860 feet
  2. Crown Heights North Historic District Listed historic place
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gregory the Great RC Church Landmark
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    930 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,100 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and five food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along New York Avenue or St Johns Place.

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