New York Avenue & St Marks Avenue

New York Avenue and St Marks Avenue 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, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church School stands 420 feet away, and Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation is 470 feet away. The nearest bus stop, New York Av/Prospect Pl, is 240 feet away for the B44. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
New York Av/Prospect Pl · B44
Within a walk
14 places
7 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & St Marks Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Prospect Pl, 240 feet away, for the B44.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Prospect Pl B44 · Shelter
    240 feet
    B44
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. New York Ave & St Marks Ave 23 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
82 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1900 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of St Marks Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 316 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1890 and 1907.

  1. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    380 feet
  2. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church School Designated landmark
    420 feet
  3. Trinity Baptist Church Designated landmark
    460 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    820 feet
  2. 1100 Bergen Street Community Garden
    990 feet

Health care

  1. Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice · landmark
    470 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District Listed historic place
    410 feet
  2. Brower Park Library
    970 feet
  3. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    970 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    890 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and 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 St Marks 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.