Nostrand Avenue & Atlantic Avenue

Nostrand Avenue and Atlantic Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 111 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. United Herkimer Garden Club is 640 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 48 places to eat.

Safety record
73 hurt
111 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
680 feet · 3 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Atlantic Av/Nostrand Av · T440
Within a walk
12 places
5 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Atlantic Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 680 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    680 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av C, S
    0.4 miles
    C S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Atlantic Av/Nostrand Av, 80 feet away, for the T440.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av/Nostrand Av T440
    80 feet
    T440

Next buses at this stop

  1. T440 …

Live arrivals

Nostrand Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pacific St & Nostrand Ave 22 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  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 111 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 73 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 20 of those hurt, on foot
  • 8 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77 and 79 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
63 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,300 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 1920.

Since 2014 at least 30 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 59 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and October 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Nostrand Avenue (west side).

North side of Atlantic Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 12 signs NO STANDING 4PM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7PM-4AM ALL DAYS

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-NOON

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 301989, 301990 and 334955.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 137 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1889 and 1893.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 093 William H. Prescott School
    1,090 feet
  2. Restoration Academy School
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. United Herkimer Garden Club Garden
    640 feet
  2. Westbrook Memorial Garden
    700 feet
  3. 1100 Bergen Street Community Garden
    860 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Twenty-Third Regiment Armory Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Friendship Baptist Church Listed historic place
    400 feet
  2. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church Landmark
    660 feet
  3. St Bartholemew Episcopal Church Landmark · listed historic place
    840 feet
Show all 5
  1. South Brooklyn Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    860 feet
  2. Greater Zion Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    1,120 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Breevort Post Office
    370 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    800 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    920 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 48 places to eat and 22 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Nostrand Avenue.

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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.