North Elliott Place & Auburn Place

North Elliott Place and Auburn Place meet at a five-way junction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Whitman development. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Community Roots Charter School is 540 feet away, and the Phoenix Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is 1,020 feet away. The nearest subway, DeKalb Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the B, Q and R. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, three of them park features, and two places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
DeKalb Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · B, Q, R
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
Myrtle Av/Saint Edwards St · B54
Within a walk
16 places
3 park features, 3 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
North Elliott Place & Auburn Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is DeKalb Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. DeKalb Av B, Q, R
    0.5 miles
    B Q R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. R …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. R …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Masstransiscope” (1980) by Bill Brand and “DeKalb Improvisation” (2005) by Stephen Johnson at the DeKalb Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Myrtle Av/Saint Edwards St, 480 feet away, for the B54.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Myrtle Av/Saint Edwards St B54
    480 feet
    B54

Next buses at this stop

  1. B54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Myrtle Ave & St Edwards St 56 docks in all
    780 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 152 Ashland Place Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1939 and 1942.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Whitman development.

Since 2014 at least 146 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Three buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 park features
  • 3 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Community Roots Charter School
    540 feet
  2. P.S. 067 Charles A. Dorsey School
    540 feet
  3. Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Greene Park
    600 feet
  2. Fort Greene Crypt in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    790 feet
  3. Fort Greene Playground
    880 feet
Show all 7
  1. Fort Greene Visitors Center in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    1,120 feet
  2. Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park Park feature
    1,130 feet
  3. Commodore Barry Park
    1,170 feet
  4. Oxport Playground
    1,280 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 31 Ambulance station
    510 feet
  2. The Phoenix Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,020 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Walt Whitman Library
    420 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 105 North Portland Avenue Older adult center
    390 feet
  2. Community center at Whitman Community center
    830 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #3 Satellite Police station
    260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  2. NYC Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Gold Organic Farm Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    980 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. City Point Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Auburn Place, North Elliott Place or North Elliott Walk.

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