Nostrand Avenue & Dean Street

Nostrand Avenue and Dean Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named William ‘Bill’ Howard Sr. Way by local law. It lies inside the Crown Heights North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 900 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the A and C.

Safety record
12 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
1,260 feet · 5 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Dean St/Nostrand Av · B65
Within a walk
19 places
11 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Dean Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 1,260 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    1,260 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Dean St/Nostrand Av, 40 feet away, for the B65.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dean St/Nostrand Av B65 · Shelter
    40 feet
    B65
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B65 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Dean Street.

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.4 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
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 900 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 829th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 515 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
74 feet above sea level

This corner is also named William ‘Bill’ Howard Sr. Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • 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 1931.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on William ‘Bill’ Howard Sr. Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dean Street

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

South side of Dean Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 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

West side of Nostrand Avenue

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 309769, 312658 and 334614.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 194 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1888 and 1893.

  1. The Union League Club Designated landmark
    700 feet
  2. First Church of Christ, Scientist Designated landmark
    710 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Grant Square Gore.

  1. Ulysses Simpson Grant Statue by William Ordway Partridge, 1896
    820 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 post office

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 1100 Bergen Street Community Garden
    280 feet
  2. Westbrook Memorial Garden
    840 feet
  3. Grant Gore Park
    980 feet
Show all 5
  1. Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
    1,080 feet
  2. United Herkimer Garden Club Garden
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church Landmark
    100 feet
  2. Friendship Baptist Church Listed historic place
    980 feet
  3. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    1,010 feet
Show all 6
  1. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    1,050 feet
  2. St Bartholemew Episcopal Church Landmark · listed historic place
    1,060 feet
  3. South Brooklyn Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 19 Rogers Avenue Older adult center
    780 feet
  2. Breevort Post Office
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    730 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dean Street or Nostrand Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.